Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...danger to which our most ambitious students are liable. The present absurd manner of marking discourages many students from doing hard work; but to those who are dependent on scholarships, and are conscientious enough to elect difficult courses, it offers strong temptation. To such students the lesson of this new calamity cannot be too strongly emphasized...
Programme and place of contest will be announced in the amusement column of the New York Herald, on Tuesday, February 18, 1879. Gold Medals will be given to first, Silver to second. Entries close Friday, February 14th...
...further particulars regarding weights and rules, address Secretary N. Y. Athletic Club, P. O. Box 3101, New York...
...booths where one could be taught to imitate the Italians and Spaniards in their love of leisure and ease, and in their neglect of the more sober realities of life. There were two other booths in the gallery which attracted great crowds. One had this placard above the door: "New Course in Chinese and Japanese Antiquities"; the other, "Course in Oriental Life." From the latter booth delicious odors were exhaled, mingled with the fumes of Turkish tobacco...
...with great regret that I saw in this morning's paper a statement that the Harvard Freshmen voted last night to invite their Cornell contemporaries to row a race with them "at New London," and I sincerely hope that some other locality may be finally chosen, in case the two classes really compete. Their presence on the Thames would tend to interfere with the perfection of the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race, and is therefore earnestly to be deprecated by all who wish to see that race firmly established there as a regular annual "institution." Few people are aware...