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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...feel that they get little praise when they win, so much is it taken as a matter of course; but when they unfortunately lose, they are followed, not with sympathy, but with fault-finding and audible imprecation. But in this case they must expect little sympathy. They went to New Haven confident themselves of making at least a close game of it, and carrying with them the unbounded confidence of the College in their complete success. Had they been beaten in a close and exciting game, we could be patient and call it hard luck; but they have not even...
...would be a profitable expenditure for the Corporation to put in a few new planks in the stairs of Stoughton, Hollis and College House next summer...
...forgotten. The volume entitled Le Noeud gordien contains several of his stories. Ferdinand Fabre has devoted himself to what might be called the novel of clerical life in France. L'Abbe Tigrane is a work of great power. It will carry the ordinary reader into a world entirely new to him. In addition to the titles I gave last year I ought also to add: Erckmann-Chatrian, L'Ami Fritz; Droz, Les Etangs; Mery, La Guerre de Nizam; and Sue, L'Orgueil...
SEVERAL times lately we have seen it mentioned that the New York Polo Club intend to offer a cup valued at five hundred dollars as a prize for the foot-ball championship of next year. Six colleges - Yale, Princeton, and Harvard among them - are to be allowed to contend for this prize, and we presume the intention is to offer the same cup each year. As yet no notice in regard to such action on the part of the Polo Club has been received by our team, but should such a prize be offered, it would tend to increase...
Such being the case, two alternatives were open, - the class might definitely abandon all plans for any celebration whatever; or they might endeavor to reorganize themselves in a new way, and to offer to their friends some sort of entertainment which should take the place of the regular Class Day exercises of past years...