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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - The chronic difficulties under which the majority of our athletic organizations seem to be struggling, has no doubt, often suggested to our readers the advisability of some change in the present methods of administration. While the ball nine from its large gate receipts. usually has a surplus at the end of the season, the crew, owing to its dependence upon subscriptions alone, is in arrears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 11/20/1884 | See Source »

...England, a well-timed riot or two and a judicious use of explosive are often necessary, some say, to call the attention of Parliament to any crying evil. Now we do not wish to make comparisons any more odious than necessary, but we cannot help feeling that there is quite a parallel case near at hand; and those of us who are not over-gifted with the calm and tranquil mind, now and then regret the extinction of certain good old college customs, that have in times past, constrained the attention of our college Parliament in a similiar manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/18/1884 | See Source »

...proper appreciation. Everybody should do some reading; and if it be good, the more the better. He who does not read is rightly termed narrow minded. Freshmen in particular are likely to put off their initiation into the awfully complicated net-work of procedure at the library, and too often this delay extends through the sophomore and junior years, and as we have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought not to be. One of the first things a man, who wants to make as much of the advantages of college life as possible, should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1884 | See Source »

...what instructors he will come under; and while there is a great gain when a man conscientiously chooses a subject without regard to its softness, still there is much lacking if he does not realize that a poor instructor in the best of courses may do him harm. How often we have heard students say of a certain course that they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/14/1884 | See Source »

...real gentleman he was, and behaved like one." Mr. Blank- the real gentleman- the immediate predecessor in one's room, is generally discovered afterwards not to have displayed toward the bed-maker the extraordinary quality with which she persists in crediting him; indeed he very often turns out to have had a very low opinion of that amiable lady's character as developed by the work she did, or is supposed to have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Opening of the College Year at Oxford. | 11/10/1884 | See Source »

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