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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...needs shortly before I wanted it. The rights of personal property have always seemed sacred and inviolable to me, but evidently there are some students here who think that private towels, if they are outside of the lockers, were put there for general use. I know there are others who have been served in the same manner as myself, and that such depredations are now becoming a positive nuisance. Will not an appeal to the consciences of those who like to take other people's property have the effect of making them desist in the future? I am sure...
The night before college opens the sophomore and freshman classes repair to the Hopkins Grammar School lot, where the ceremonies attendant upon the rush take place. Under the supervision of the seniors, a ring is formed and the exercises begin. Wrestling is indulged in first by the light-weights, then...
A general increase has been made in the rent of college rooms at Yale. This is due to a necessity for a larger income. The annual income of Yale has always been small, but it is a doubtful expediency which seeks to augment it by an increase in term bills...
After the Revolution, Columbia College, having dropped its royal name and patron as well as its Tory president and Tory professors of history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of...
The call of Francis Lieber to Columbia College in 1857, marks the first recognition by a northern college of history and politics as properly co-ordinate sciences. At the College of South Carolina, Lieber had taught history, political economy and philosophy, as a homogeneous group. The presence of the latter...