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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...epithet "scurrilous," applied to the Yale News by one of its older contemporaries of the same place, seems, from the language of that paper with regard to our recent Freshman match with Yale, to be but little too strong. We are told "that there is no doubt that the bull-dozing policy pursued during the game affected the result," which is contradicted in the same sentence by the assertion that "no one. . . . can attribute the disastrous result to these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner...
...members of two different electives. We do not wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive. Then again, when his half-hour is over, he must be an unwilling listener to instruction that, in most cases...
...race, and returning, will leave New London about 7 P. M. A book for the names of those wishing to go on this train will be opened at Bartlett's, and as the special train will be a great convenience to a large number of students, and will place them in a position where they will be independent of New London hotel-keepers, it is to be hoped that men will not delay in registering their names. About three hundred names are desired, and it is very necessary that they should be obtained at an early date, that full arrangements...
...Illinois Freshman has the reputation of having thus outwitted a pert Senior. Senior. "Do you know why our college is such a learned place?" Freshman. "Of course; the Freshmen all bring a little learning here, and as the Seniors never take any away, it naturally accumulates." - University Reporter...
Cornell. - The Freshman eight are now rowing seventeen miles daily, and are being carefully coached. J. E. Read left the crew last week, but his place has been filled...