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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Probably the one place in college that impresses the visitor with the fact that the student does study and think and read is the library. And the department of the library of which this is especially true is the "Notes and Queries" system. There the particular study or theme in which each student is most interested is reflected in the questions written on the card. Rarely one of these questions is found that betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/5/1883 | See Source »

...reception and ball of the Boston Commandery of Knights Templars in the Mechanics' Fair Building, Boston, last evening, attracted an audience of six or eight thousand, and was a success in every particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/1/1883 | See Source »

...wish to call particular attention to the Assyrian reading to be given this evening by Prof. Lyon in Sever Hall. The poem to be read is the oldest existing epic, and has been discovered only in the last ten years. The interest centres chiefly about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1883 | See Source »

...system to be adopted by Dr. Laughlin in Political Economy 2 for the study of Carey's Social Science, is to divide the class into sections, have each section make a particular study of a special subject discussed by Carey, and then have the written statement of the results of this study criticised by other sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/20/1883 | See Source »

...Princeton College, took occasion to deliver a long harangue against athletic sports as at present practiced in colleges. The good doctor asserted that an undue amount of attention was paid to athletic sports as compared with the proper studies of the course, and that a reform in this particular was earnestly to be desired. He, therefore, urgently requested that less attention be paid to outdoor sports and more to books. Dr. McCosh, like his learned brother the Rev. Howard Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain. Dr. McCosh is an intelligent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS DISCOURAGED AT PRINCETON. | 1/18/1883 | See Source »

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