Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received the prospectus of a new college paper, the Columbia Spectator, which will be the "official paper of Columbia College." It is to be of the same size as the Advocate and the Crimson, and it will alternate with the Acta Columbiana, thus giving the Columbia students two papers a month. We wish the new paper all the success which its prospectus anticipates, - and that is a great deal...
...having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around the individual. They represented a "putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit prevalent among the Jersey college men of making pools of ten cents, etc., will have to be stopped. Better back up your Nine." - Courant...
...goddess of Harvard rowing, when she was down, a sound drubbing, and then take away what little means she had of raising herself. This unknown gentleman has extended to her a strong helping hand, left her to use the props she had before, and given her a stout new stick for her next race. To him the students return their most hearty thanks. On Wednesday night the crew made their first trip in the new Blakey shell. The dimensions of this boat are: length, 58 feet; width, 23 1/2 inches; weight, 225 pounds. This is undoubtedly one of the finest...
...pacified, and talked very agreeably on college subjects, most especially on sporting matters, and I joined in as well as I could. I had him on the new University shells, for he had n't been down to the boat-house since they came, but he discussed the advantages of paper and wood at a great rate...
...interrupted; "I ain't that sort. What I did was to take four or five pools on Yale before I left here; they were twenty-nine to six, you know, before the game. Then I went down to New Haven and bet the rest of my pile, and lost it, but then I raked in on the pools enough to cover my shorts...