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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hendee, the champion bicycle rider. has won prizes the past two years to the amount of two thousand dollars...
...survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what benefit would experience be ? Evolution teaches that the present comes out of the past and goes down to the future. Evolution but shows the agencies by which God's plans are carried out. It is but the evolution of Genesis when each 'brings forth after its kind.' Science tells the same story. But what is the limit of the fixedness...
...occasion, smoked and drank beer, and, although they did not stay as late, seemed to enjoy themselves as much as the students. Still, we are informed that less important "Commers" are apt to be rather noisier and later affairs than the one we have described. About half past twelve, the Commers broke up after singing a Latin song and the students dispersed...
...subject of interest to many, students and instructors alike, is the need of a much larger number of duplicate copies of certain reference books in the library. Several new methods of study have been introduced during the past few years, and among them is the use of reference books for parallel reading. Especially has this become the practice in many of the history courses, which are among the largest and most popular in the elective schedule. One of two alternatives for carrying out this reading must be taken by a candidate in such courses. Either he must buy or borrow...
...Foot-ball Record for '83, and Past Seasons" by W. C. Camp, Yale. '82, is in press...