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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...guilty of using a member's ticket in order to purchase goods at the society's store. Of course, such an offence is nothing more nor less than deliberate fraud, and fraud, too, against the offender's own fellow students. However, such a case, from necessity, must be so rare an occurrence among those who profess to be gentlemen, that we but briefly call attention to it, before dismissing it from mind...
President Porter's idea that Yale is doing its full duty toward young women by educating young men to "influence" them is thoroughly mannish. The best influence commonly comes from the other side. At the same time, we rare that Wellesley or Vassar is better for the girls than Yale or Harvard. [Herald...
...head, which may open the skull but is easily guarded. The favorite stroke is performed by a quick, dexterous turn of the wrist, and inflicts a scratch in the neck under the chin. A surgeon is always at hand to decide upon the gravity of the wound. Rare instances occur in which a student is killed in a duel, in which case his adversary is confined in the neighboring fortress for two years...
...half-mile run for telegraph boys is to be one of the features of the spring meeting of a New York club. It will be a rare sight to see telegraph boys run for a longer distance than half a block...
...born at Hillsboro' Bridge, New Hampshire, Dec. 9, 1862. While he was still a small boy, his father died; and the education of the son devolved upon the mother, who in spite of numerous difficulties, devoted herself to the task with the zeal and energy a boy of such rare promise deserved. Having completed the course in the Hillsboro' High School, he went for two terms to Tilton Academy. In Sept., 1877, he entered the junior class in Phillips Exeter Academy ; and, though not yet sixteen years of age, he soon ranked among the first scholars of his class...