Word: pots
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST.- At the freshman Glee club concert, a brown pot hat, with my name inside. Will the finder please return it to J. Codman, 2 Holyoke house...
...spoiling and humiliating education. Examination papers, not textbooks, have come to be the real objects of study. The system of distinction and prizes is absurdly overdone. Art, learning, politics and amusements are deluged with shows, races, competitions and prizes. Life is becoming one long scramble of prize winning and pot hunting, and examination, stereotyped into a trade, is having the same effect on education that betting has on every healthy sport, Parents governments and colleges combine to stimulate competitive examinations and the mark system...
...shot, 220-yards dash, kicking the football, throwing the baseball, mile walk, hurdle race, standing broad jump (without weights) running broad jump, sack race (100 yards), 100-yards three-legged race, 440-yards dash, knapsack race, mile run, running high jump, pole vault, running hop-skip-jump, bean pot race...
...Glee Club concert, which came the night before, and the class Germans, which were held the night after the promenade, only added to the pleasures of that event, and all combined to make the week one to be long remembered with fond associations. The Pot Pourri made its annual appearance last Wednesday and surprised us with a new and handsome cover. Among the new illustrations the most prominent are cuts of the eleven, Glee Club, Banjo Club, and the new Cloister building, now in process of erection. The junior appointment list has been published and includes eighty-four...
...Pot Pourri, the annual Yale publication devoted to all matters of interest to the college, will be issued to-morrow...