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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wore glasses. There is an old legend which is to-day told in one of the Swiss villages among the Alps, to the effect that the great Julius stopped there on his way to interview the mighty man of the Helvetii, and it was noticed that the great statesman never raised his eyes throughout his stay from an ancient manuscript, which rumor said had been sent to him from Alexandria. Many were the conjectures as to the nature of the writing. At last an old peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar...
...Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses, and for being too ardent at their devotions in chapel. But as I have never been able to substantiate this, I fear that it is a lie. To return to archetypes, Cicero and Virgil were not grinds, but Epictetus was a grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin...
Princeton can at last fairly claim a hard won championship in foot-ball. While the contest this year has hardly excited at Harvard the interest taken in it during past years deeper interest in the individual work of the players has never, perhaps, been shown. The playing of Yale as a team cannot be classed as worthy of its usual high commendation, but, notwithstanding the evident lack of first-class material, there was still exhibited much of the old time determination to win. But fortune has, for this time at least, decided against the blue. We recognize the pluck shown...
...last Tuesday, realized after the game that the gymnasium is sadly deficient in the apparatus for drying clothes. There are, to be sure, the steam pipes in the back of the lockers, but every one who has had any experience in the matter knows that clothes in the lockers never dry, no matter how long they remain there. Besides this there is one radiator in the bathroom. Probably it was not intended for a drying machine; but that is what it is used for, and it does its work well. One, however, is not enough...
...compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible to cast off a custom which must needs seem to all sober-minded men a disgrace to our college, binding on us as it does material observance of spiritual things...