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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Yale Courant of the 13th inst. is a very newsy number. The Courant is far above the average of college papers, and we congratulate it on the success of its new management. An article on the Yale Club, an institution corresponding to our Thayer Club, has the following: "This institution is now run on the hotel plan, and quite a varied bill of fare is furnished every day. Circumstances seem to favor the adoption of the restaurant plan, and that would doubtless be very convenient for most students, and a good thing for the club." We quote the above...
...Yale Record of this week is a good number. Among other things it discusses the place of the next Regatta, approves of New London, and thinks that extortion would be the chief feature of a Regatta at Saratoga. It loses its temper in an attempt to "rough" the Magenta for venturing to say that in its last number it indulged "a wee bit in braggadocio," and makes one remark which may have been funny when it first appeared in Yale papers, though we have forgotten, and another which we do not repeat, because we are unwilling to believe that more...
...last number of the Advocate the Freshmen were most justly censured for neglect of their crew...
...most of those men the following seems the best plan that can be followed: There are several fellows, who have been here a year or more and who have pulled during that time, who it is thought would be willing, if asked by the class, to choose a number of men, train them during the winter, and teach them all that can be learned on the rowing weights. When the spring comes, the trainer might take them on the river, going himself as coxswain, and assign to them their positions in the boat as should seem to him best...
...distinguished men, who had come from distant parts of the country to pay the tribute of their presence to the memory of Agassiz. At the conclusion of the short and simple service, the body was carried to Mount Auburn, where a burial service was read by Dr. Peabody. The number of people in the Chapel was very great; but, owing to the good arrangements of the Committee, there was no crowding or confusion, and the perfect silence of the large assembly was a good evidence of its grief for the death of Agassiz, and its earnest wish...