Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Substitute the following for the latter part. The four annual aggregates of each member of the graduating class are reduced to a uniform standard and combined to form a final rank-list, called the General Scale...
...West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that...
...club will meet for a hare and hounds run tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10.30 in front of University. As this will probably be the last club run of the year it is hoped that all who can will take part. The roads are now in excellent condition and time cups will be given to all hounds covering the course at the rate of eleven miles per hour. All winners of first prizes in previous runs will be handicapped. The gold prizes won in the last run are now ready...
...Princeton's team this year is their rigid determination to beat Harvard in some way or other, and their wonderful confidence in being able to do so. They are strong where we are weakest, namely in the halfbacks, and they endeavor to play the entire game in that part care of Mr. Robinson they even surpass the remarkable physical condition usually characteristic of Princeton teams, and this fact alone more than explains their recent defeat of Wesleyan at New York. They fairly played the Connecticut men off their feet in the last three quarters, while at the end they...
...would suggest in view of the nearness of the game with Yale which '87 has soon to play, that the freshman event. The class which supports the eleven has the right to demand that every effort be made to ensure success on the part of the eleven, and this will not be done unless this measure is taken. It will certainly be a pity if with such material as the class possesses '87 does not make at least as good a record this fall as '86 did last season...