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...Williams Athenaeum holds up its hands in holy horror, as it says with bated breath: "The following conversation was overheard by one of our students at a fashionable watering-place this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...next three-quarters the Freshmen were outplayed at every point, and Exeter obtained two touch-downs and one goal from the field; thus leaving the game, Exeter, one goal and three touch-downs, '83, nothing. The Freshmen played an exceedingly poor game throughout, Lee's fine rushes being the only redeeming features of their playing. We hope they will take this game as a warning, and practise daily, especially in passing, as in their present form they can never hope to defeat Yale, '83, this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

NOTHING of interest has happened lately in Athletic circles. Every one has read of, and been disgusted with, the Hanlan-Courtney fiasco. Ross added one more defeat to his already long list, being easily defeated by Riley, in a race rowed on the Thames, October 21. Merrill and Duffy carried off the prizes in the three-mile walk and one-mile run, at the Amateur Championship of Canada Meeting, October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery of the language a long time would be required. A student might spend the four years of his college course entirely upon Chinese, and yet have all his time occupied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHINESE ELECTIVE. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...game was stopped by darkness, after the Unions had won one goal, and the Harvards two. By the rules of the National Association the winning club must have won three goals; hence, though practically a victory for our side, it was declared no game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LACROSSE GAME. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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