Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Alumni of New York hold their monthly reunion to-night at Delmonico's. Professor W. G. Sumner is to deliver an address...
...appointed for Saturday, May 17, and the Columbia class races for the previous Saturday, and as the Freshmen of both colleges will be in training for those events, I see no reason why the proposed race between them might not be rowed about the close of May, either at New London or Springfield...
...that the natural obstacles which the managers have to contend against should not be unnecessarily increased by one jot or tittle. Alluding to one of the lesser of these obstacles, I may say that, spite of all which can be done to prevent it, ''the famine which raged at New London on the 28th of last June" must to some extent rage there again on the 27th of next June. But who can paint the probable horrors of the case if the visitors to the Freshman match are allowed to "eat out the town" on the previous...
...itself, it may fairly be said that its annual regattas of the last six seasons have increased steadily in importance, representing an equally steady growth in its own character and influence. It is controlled by an executive committee of nine, who at present represent boat-clubs situated at New York, Newark, Albany, Providence, Philadelphia (2), Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago, and who were all (save the last named) in attendance at the regular semi-annual meeting held in this city, January 11. I myself was present there by invitation, and was impressed by the straightforward, business-like way in which...
...new plan of degrees and honors proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention has passed the Faculty with some modifications, and will now come before the Overseers. 80 per cent on eight hours, instead of on six, will be required for Honorable Mention, but if the subject is English, 85 per cent will be required. The degree of A. B. cum laude will be given to every one who attains 75 per cent on his college course, or receives Honorable Mention in one study, provided in the last case that he attains 70 per cent on his college...