Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Social tomorrow evening beginning at 7.30. Every member is urged to be present...
...Yale Gun Club has assumed the name of the University Gun Club. It is planned to hold monthly meetings. On account of the large number of members no '91 or '92 men will be admitted until later in the year. A team will soon be chosen from among the present members and a challenge will be sent to Harvard...
...Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably not carried much beyond geometry. Harvard, then, had 300 students and Princeton 130. A student's annual expenses at Harvard were about...
...number of candidates for the Yale crew is at present only eleven. The unsuccessful candidates have turned their attention to their respective class crews. On Monday the crew took its first meal at the training table, and from now up to the date of the race the men will keep in strict training. Of the eleven candidates only three rowed in last year's boat but Caldwell who is trying, rowed as stroke in '87. The names of the men are given below, the first four of whom have rowed in a 'Varsity boat before. Woodruff, '89, (captain); Hartwell...
Brown University will suffer a serious loss in the resignation of its president, Dr. E. G. Robinson, who will withdraw from the presidency of the University at the end of the present college year. Dr. Robinson is now 74 old and during his whole life has been very active. He is still remarkably powerful, physically and mentally, but feels that the fullest development of the college requires the services of a younger...