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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...presence of girl students would do more than the police. It is safe to say that under the separate system the young men and women will think more about each other in a morbid way and there will be more attempts at clandestine correspondence and flirtation, than if they met each other every day naturally and simply in the class-room under the eye of the professors, and without the attraction of forbidden fruit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

...elocutionary and dramatic power. His reading of the Midsummer Night's Dream with orchestral accompaniament will be long remembered by all who had the good fortune to hear him. As a humorous and dialect reader Mr. Hayes stands almost unrivalled. Everywhere he has received the highest praise and has met with the most flattering success. Mr. Hayes will read at Library Hall on the evening of Feb. 4th. The reading will be a miscellaneous one, including dramatic, narrative, and humorous selections, As a former "Cornellian" he ought to be met by a large audience of students and professors. - Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/25/1887 | See Source »

...preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license. The only way in which the terrible power of the liquor organizations in our country could be fought was in having the young men take a decided stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Higginson and Gen. Swift speak on Temperance. | 1/22/1887 | See Source »

What has become of the scheme which met with so much favor from the students last year, of adding a swimming-bath to the gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/20/1887 | See Source »

...Natural History Society met in its new room in Lawrence Hall for the first time Wednesday evening. The following new members were elected: Collier Cobb, L. S. S., H. H. Field, Sp., W. F. Ganong, Gr., J. L. Goodale, '89, Kingo Miyable, Gr., and C. W. Woodworth, Gr. Mr. G. H. Parker gave a very interesting resume of the recent literature on the Development of the Eyes of Arthropods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/20/1887 | See Source »

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