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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fourth number of the present volume of the Advocate will be ready this afternoon. The first few columns as usual are given up to editorials which certainly sustain the reputation of these columns in previous issues. The Advocate is almost always to be congratulated upon the stand it takes on matters of general college interest...
...natural. The discovery that he had been the victim of a dream is quite as unexpected to the reader as to Jack Hunter himself; and this very circumstance adds not a little to the effectiveness of the story. Were any comparison to be drawn between the stories in the present number of the Advocate it would seem to be but just to pronounce that of Mr. Mayandier the best...
...Topic of the Day appears a discussion of the development of musical taste among people at large. The article commends the present growing appreciation of music and justly considers it from an educational point of view one of the favorable signs of the times...
...controversy progresses it becomes more and more evident how firmly the Yale management has trenched itself behind the constitution of the Foot-Ball Association, and how little Harvard has to base its claims upon except the honor of the Yale management of this and last year-which, from the present aspect of things, appears to be a very frail basis. When the convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain...
Very naturally, football is at present the most engrossing topic in college circles, and the result of the Harvard Princeton game is awaited with a degree of interest second only to that you yourselves feel. A number of accidents has kept our eleven in an uncertain state as regards its composition; Gill '89 and Rhodes '91 are just recovering from sprains, while Woodruff '89 did not begin training with the team until the first of this week. The half-backs are not chosen yet and probably will not be until the Princeton game. The work of the freshman team...