Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they won high rank as scholars. This they could not possibly have done had they given - or been allowed to give - one-tenth part of the time devoted to those purposes in some of our American colleges, to training, travelling and public exhibitions...
...ungentlemanly conduct cannot win as it can in foot-ball, we should choose the more effiicent adversary. However much Yale may strive to make herself disagreeable by her infantile cries of eel grass, such claims, which, even if allowed, only show a want of management and judgment on her part, can only result in making her, as it did last June, the laughing stock of the college and sporting world...
...disturbances, provided he has not held the degree for more than one week. Mr. B. R. Curtis has advanced, through the columns of a contemporary, an opinion on the subject which wins approbation from some of our best legal authorities and most devoted friends of the university. The concluding part of his last article is subjoined : "The overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power...
...been led to suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than in the larger ones; and in seeking to stand apart and form, as it were, an aristocracy of universities, the latter...
...PART II.1-CORONATION MARCH FROM "THE PROPHET"..........Meyerbeer...