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...time approaches when the Student Council will loom up as a reality, not as one of last year's dreams. Nominations for the two delegates at large to be chosen from the three upper classes have been posted, and after they are elected the Council will convene immediately to elect the three delegates at large from the entire undergraduate body, and to assume the responsibilities which it has voluntarily shouldered...
...debating season is now fairly under way, and intercollegiate contests are beginning to loom up in the future, it seems to be a fitting time to consider the prospects for the year. It is of the utmost importance that the University shall assert once more its former superiority in debating. There are two defeats to be wiped out, and, in order to do it, and do it decisively, some very hard work will be required...
...Cornell, wonderfully rapid as have been the development of football and track athletics, boating continues to loom up pre-eminently as the representative sport. The Cornell navy came into existence in 1871, when there were only about 400 men in the university against its present 1400. The next year a crew was sent to Spring field and met defeat. Although creeping up in place, defeat fodowed for two years, until 1873, when a turning point was reached. In that year Cornell's freshmen defeated Harvard, Brown and Princeton, and the 'varsity won its first great race against twelve competitors. Both...
...summary shows, in exact numbers, 203 seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen and 46 specials, a total of 928 in the college proper. In the list of courses a closer and more compact arrangement and smaller type makes a pleasing change. Semetic languages and Sanskrit and Zend loom up in a very formidable manner. The descent to freshman studies next following, however, like that to Avernus, is easy - a statement that is perhaps equivocal. Those ancient deceits - the four tables of estimated annual expenses - still maintain their posts of duty in the catalogue, representing with invariable exactness from year...
...loom the locust shrill; the far sky smokt...