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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exellent solution of the difficulty, and that, too, without any increase in the running expenses. It is proposed to have two separate hours for each meal, and thus enable each table and each seat to be used twice over, if necessary. The hall will thus accommodate thirteen hundred persons, instead of six hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate calculations connected with the rank-list, in constructing tables of college-statistics, in superintending arrangements for examinations, and in so ordering the details of the academic routine as to preclude interference and conflict. No person connected with the University has labored more assiduously than he, or to better purpose. Intelligence, discretion, vigilance, patience, punctuality, integrity, kindness, were all equally essential qualities for one in his position, and they were so perfectly united in him that we should do him wrong by selecting either of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...mild, inoffensive-looking person of about twenty-six summers, attired in a neat blue suit, and at the first glance would have been taken for one of those harmless young men of gentlemanly pursuits, and no visible means of support, whom one so often notices in our "Modern Athens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...person who, in a recent letter, attempted to explain away a suggestion advocating the admitting of Freshmen to the Tree on Class Day next, is, to say the least, illogical in his arguments and narrow in his views. He talks of "pleasing the Freshmen at the expense of the other classes," in a tone which is arrogant and unfair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...person not a member of a recognized Club must be properly introduced by some well-known person who can vouch for his being an amateur. Tug-of-war teams must represent some Club or Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

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