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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE Columbia Freshmen have voted to let the Captain of the University pick out their class crew, and that the crew shall choose its own captain.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

Let it not be forgotten that open scholarships would be fully available for all who are now able to avow necessitous circumstances, provided their work was good enough to gain them. The change would consist simply in completing the halting analogy between a scholarship and "a silver cup won in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

"She can be charming or sunny as the day; but if she be not so to me for my own merits, what care I how transcendentally agreeable she be"? Here's the Junior, feeling his dignity as an upper class man, and determined not to waste his sweetness on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKING BOOKS. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

New London is indeed no place for a long-drawn-out "regatta tournament," or series of races between several crews. Its distinctive recommendation as the scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROPOSED FRESHMAN RACE. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

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