Word: overeers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is the custom I think among most of the professors of this college to have their blue books, after an examination, looked over, if not marked by some competent third party. The student accordingly is brought to feel the justice of his marks, and even if he is not...
The Baseball Association is in its usual flourishing condition. At the end of the last college year, the association had a surplus of about $3650. Allowing $150 for outstanding debts, and retaining a surplus of $1500, the Baseball Association handed over to this committee the sum of $2000 "to be...
Most of the natives of Alaska are industrious and religious. They are degraded by a superstition which attributes all misfortune to evil spirits. There is a class of "medicine men" who devote their lives to propitiating these evil spirits, and who think to increase their power by eating human corpses...
The great possibilities of progress and civilization among the people are shown by two experiences. The first is that of Mr. Duncan, an English missionary, who landed at Alaska thirty-five years ago. His efforts to spread the gospel were received enthusiastically by the people, and he soon gained so...
In the heavy-weight wrestling, (over 160 pounds), there were two entries, H. O. Stickney, L. S., and G. L. Hunter, '89. Hunter withdrew, however, leaving Stickney a walkover.