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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...termed a "fox," which is equivalent to our "Freshman." Why he should be thus called is not easy to say, as he is not at this time supposed to be possessed of any of Reynard's characteristics, unless it may be his love for chicken. In the latter part of the last century the word "fishing" was exactly equivalent to "toadying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...second place, as to the merit of such a claim on Yale's part. It must be noticed that, at this point, we leave the province of clear and unanswerable reasoning. On such a question opinions are determined, not so much by the spoken reasons (such as on Harvard's part "unfairness to the smaller colleges," and on Yale's "fitness that the two races should be rowed on one principle") as by feelings, customs, prejudices. Every one will allow that races between University, and between College or department, Freshmen are both very good things. But if only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...easy rhymsters (who are closely connected with the babblers), and others, - but there is not room to speak of them, or of the really fine poets, who usually have something of the good qualities of all schools, and to whom the college papers are indebted for a large part of their popularity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POETRY. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...elective professes to embrace. Object-teaching has, as yet, hardly been introduced into the study of Meteorology, and where such teaching has been introduced it tends rather to Physics and kindred branches. The objection to the method of teaching pursued in this course is, then, restricted to a third part of the whole elective, and is worthy of consideration only in this relation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NATURAL HISTORY, 1." | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...best part of the University Reporter is the ample space occupied by advertisements, prominent among which is the card of Miss Nellie Eaton, milliner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

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