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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Convocation at Oxford has authorized the expenditure of L500 to obtain a report upon the Greek MSS., especially upon the MSS. of Homer's poems...
...sixth question then is, Why should this action have been without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why fear to give the college time to consider it? Why spring this alliance of the "fox and goose" on the university? The answer is, 'To take advantage of the ill-feeling excited by the Princeton game to get rid of Princeton.' Why not have done this in a straightforward deliberate way, if it is desired by both Harvard and Yale. Surely...
...Codman asks why the withdrawal should have taken place "without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why refuse to give the college time to consider it? " These questions are easily answered. It was thought that decisive action would prove that we were in earnest much more conclusively than a mere threat. There was no secrecy about the matter. Everything was done openly and avowedly. The matter of a dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw...
ENGLISH C and ENGLISH D.- A talk on Essential Qualities in an Argument and on Perorations will be given in Sever 11, Thursday, Nov. 14 at 12 o'clock and at 3. The briefs for the first forensic will be returned on Thursday. Juniors may obtain theirs at the talk in English C: seniors at that in English D. The first forensic will be due, Tuesday, Nov, 20 at 24 Grays hall...
ENGLISH C and ENGLISH D.- A talk on Essential Qualities in an Argument and on Perorations will be given in Sever 11, Thursday, Nov. 14 at 12 o'clock and at 3. The briefs for the first forensic will be returned on Thursday. Juniors may obtain theirs at the talk in English C; seniors at that in English D. The first forensic will be due, Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 24 Grays hall...