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Dates: during 1880-1889
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NOTWITHSTANDING the frequent changes of editors, the college papers have an individuality that is usually very marked. One can see this by taking the trouble to look over the back volumes of the Advocate and Crimson preserved in the Library. So, too, colleges have their own air of personality. And this characteristic is nowhere more evident than at Yale. The Yale papers carry a self-assertive air, that is apt at times to degenerate into braggadocio, as in the recent matter of the football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...three years that the wind, if there is any, nearly always goes down by sunset. No race has yet been postponed there over the day appointed. New London also offers a chance for yacht clubs to meet and see the race, - a capital grand stand, and good look-out points along either shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LONDON OR SPRINGFIELD? | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...year 2000 of the Christian Era." I was standing in the middle of a ten-acre lot, around which were a number of buildings, one or two of which had a painfully familiar look, as if they were the ghosts of former friends. My interlocutor was a young man of eighteen or so, elegantly attired in a suit of white cloth of a peculiar texture. On his right sleeve was what I at once recognized as a Tabular View, on his left a College Directory, on the back of his coat was the seal of Harvard in crimson; he wore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GHOSTLY FUTURITIES." | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...years and under." With a field of 16 starters, in the final heat he easily took the lead and kept it without difficulty, winning, finally, in 57 1/4 seconds, which, for a race under the above conditions, is very fast. He runs in excellent form, and we shall look for his name among the winners at next spring's Inter-scholastic Games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...thing looks feasible, Min; but you don't want to be too preliminary in these sort of things. I am a little shaky about the crew. I don't like the stroke Jennie Sinews sets : she buckets, and isn't quick enough on the recover. Then, the bow there is terrible, terrible. Sal Biceps will never make a good oar : back's too short; all her strength lies in her arms. As for Billy Pigmy, the coxswain, he'll lose his head when he sees Biddy Cooke's crew alongside of ours at New London. There! look now, how your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT WE ARE COMING TO; OR, HARVARD IN 1981. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

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