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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were nearly 6000 people present at vespers yesterday evening. Dr. Peabody conducted the service, while Dr. McKenzie occupied the reading desk. After reading the parable of the Prodigal Son, Dr. Peabody called attention to the condition of the prodigal at the moment he began his better life. He had drunk the cup of self-indulgence to its dregs; he had been a mockery of himself, but his true self had at length returned. Few of us have ever been in the condition of the prodigal, but in every serious life there comes a similar transition. Our minds...
...nines since the beginning of their intercollegiate contests in 1868. Both universities have won twenty-nine games. In 1883 Harvard led Yale six in games won. Since then Yale has improved disproportionately and has won enough games over Harvard to make the score a tie. In this condition the present season opens. It remains to be seen whether we forge ahead of our rivals or permit Yale to continue their victorious career...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would...
...hour examinations as they do before mid-year examinations, and consequently gain almost as little from their work in one case as in the other. It is true the constant feeling of an impending examination would probably cause some men to do better work than they do under the present system. Still the real evil is but slightly mitigated...
COMMITTEE.H. A. A.- The sale of reserved seat tickets will begin this morning at 9 at the Co-operative. Tickets will be sold only to those who present their membership tickets...