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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brain power, for many an idiot has been proven to have as large a brain as that of some of the great intellects of history. Only two animals have brains absolutely larger than man, - the elephant and whale. If weight has nothing to do with brain power, we must look elsewhere for its source; we find it in what is called the "gray matter...
...exist; and as long as that is the case, it should be the aim of every true Harvard man to find some remedy which will remove it. It is absurd to shut our eyes to the evil because we believe it is less here than elsewhere, and to look for its disappearance if we refuse to consider it, simply because the discussion offends our fine sensibilities...
Unless unforeseen circumstances arise between the present time and the time for the games, Yale will probably have to look elsewhere for athletic honors. Hence, with a raw university crew, an untried and discouraged nine, and the recollection of the last Yale-Princeton foot-ball game, Yale's colors are rapidly changing from navy blue to indigo of the deepest and most sombre...
...citizens of Cambridge alike. The programmes have been in the main well selected to please the audiences which assemble in Sanders Theatre, and in this respect the courses have probably been an improvement on those in Music Hall. Those who are to be in Cambridge next year will look forward to a course of symphonies in the same place. We hope they will not be disappointed...
...granting that it fail in its main object, - that, in spite of it, prayers still remain compulsory, - yet the Overseers cannot refuse to heed the reasonable and manly request contained in a minor clause, asking that detailed reasons be given for unfavorable action, if such action be taken. We look, then, for a happy conclusion of the matter, or at least for a candid statement of the reasons influencing the Overseers, in case of an adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection...