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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After several months of discussion the Inter-collegiate Press Association has taken a definite shape and has become a reality. The aims of the association are not so ambitious as to render them unattainable. nor are they on the other hand so unimportant as to render their success or failure a matter of no consequence. The establishment of a corresponding secretary at each of the colleges, whose duty it will be to answer promptly and accurately any inquiries which may be made by any paper belonging to the association, will satisfy a long-felt need in college journalism. The advantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/3/1883 | See Source »

...University of New York has done nothing in the way of athletic sports and instead of speaking from experience, as we are qualified to do, he merely advances his hypothesis, based upon an imagined condition of facts. We have not found that a fondness for athletic exercises tended to render students indifferent to their progress in class, or influenced them, when exercising their right of selecting subjects of study, to choose easy branches or to diminish their application. On the contrary, we have had to restrain some of our athletes from undertaking more intense application to a wider range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALUE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS. | 12/22/1882 | See Source »

...instructors would do this they could without a great deal of trouble to themselves render a great service to their sections, and prevent the hard feelings sometimes engendered on account of a man's feeling that he has been marked too low, simply because he does not understand the principle upon which his work for the year has been adjudged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1882 | See Source »

...English writer says, concerning the influence of the women's colleges at Oxford and Cambridge: "The sweet 'girl-graduate,' flourishing as that race appears to be, has not yet so fully taken possession of our universities as to render feminine society and girlish voices every-day adjuncts of college life; and perhaps their very rarity in those monastic precincts goes far to increase the charm which their presence undoubtedly adds to the otherwise sombre surroundings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1882 | See Source »

...book proposed. Besides it is very probable that, if it is desired, the committee could secure the active assistance of several members of '82, who took an active interest in the enterprise last spring. Indeed, we are informed that one of these gentlemen, at least, has promised to render every aid in his power to the work. With these prospects there would seem to be no reason for delay on the part of the committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/4/1882 | See Source »

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