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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...active enough in having their pictures taken. As has been several times emphasized in our columns, it is necessary that sittings for this purpose be held immdeately and not put off until spring when every one has his hands full. If the members of the foot-ball eleven prefer to wait a while before having their features immortalized by the camera, we can comprehend and pardon their motive. They can hardly be willing to hand themselves down to posterity with broken noses, scarred cheeks, and blacked eyes. As for the seniors the lines of thought that ennoble the countenance have...
This rather curious fact can easily be explained. Since the special students enjoy advantages as members of the University in regular standing, the older men prefer to enter as specials. There was a remarkable regularity in the ages of those entering this year, the average being about...
...cost which we find to our surprise in the undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would...
...freshmen from the New London race will not check the importance that is now attached to this crew, as they have already under advisement one or two races in which they will enter, provided they do not row in the proposed triangular race; but, of course, they would much prefer to row the Harvard freshmen than any other crew, for reasons stated. College athletics, as seen in the recently formed base-ball league, and even last Saturday, in the harmonious foot-ball convention, have assumed a more manly and straightforward spirit. Why should there be an exception in the case...
...belongs to some Club where members, manners, opinions, expenditures, are all to his taste, will confine himself almost altogether to that club, or, if I may so use the phrase, the active membership of the proposed University Society will consist of those students who prefer loafing in public to loafing in private in some friends room, of those professors who have time to give to the club, and of those students who come to meet the professors...