Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...basement of the new Gymnasium and most of the first floor are already up. It will evidently be a very fine one when completed, but there does not seem to be much prospect that '79 will enjoy...
...new arrangement of the Prescribed Philosophy, Logic will not be taught the first half-year, nor Metaphysics the second. The hours set down for these studies on the Tabular View will therefore be disregarded, and all Juniors and Elective Sophomores will present themselves at one of the following times to arrange with their instructor permanent hours of recitation...
...credit of the committee of reception that they declined the offer of the city government. A procession of graduates and undergraduates dragged the triumphal car to Delmonico's, where a fete - that is what they call it in New York - completed the celebration of the event...
AGAIN the annual duty devolves upon us of recording the going of the old class and the coming of the new; again we are reminded of the mutability of college life, its aims, its pleasures, and its end; and again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely the "men" who have been intrusted by anxious parents to a foster-mother's care. Though the class of '78 exerted an elevating and manly influence on the college, and were characterized by good scholarship as well as by conviviality, they will be missed more as individuals than...
...many amusing things that the reader of the daily papers has found this summer, the most absurd probably are the "resolutions" passed by the Aldermen of New York in honor of the victorious Columbia crew. A great many of the denizens of the metropolis were doubtless enthusiastic over the news, and the city fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers...