Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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HENRY WARD BEECHER says that the University of Virginia is fifty years ahead of any school in the United States in its system of teaching. It is as many behind any college.
THE last Cornell Era is a bright and interesting paper. From it we should infer that their ardor is not at all dampened by their ill luck at Springfield. Boating at that college seems to be in an unusually vigorous condition. A regatta is to be held there on the...
THE name of Professor Byerly, Harvard, '71, appears several times in this paper. It is exceedingly gratifying to his many friends here thus to hear of his growing popularity through "his gentlemanly manners in the class-room as well as his interest in athletic sports." We also remember that he...
AND now, finding no "bone of contention" elsewhere, Yale, true to her instincts, is having a pleasant little row all by herself. The Yale papers contain very copious accounts of the trouble. It appears that Captain Cook and Mr. Dunning, President of the Yale Navy, do not agree upon all...
ONE of our exchanges heads an article "A Walking Trip on Foot."