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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sporting editor authorizes us to say that, in view of the prompt manner in which the table at Morgan's has subscribed for a cup, he will guarantee $15 more for a mile-run. Now, won't the Advocate attend to the mile-walk, the Lampoon to the hurdle-race, and some of the club tables to the hundred-yards, two-mile run, broad jump, high jump...
...books are examined and the mistakes marked without the instructor's knowing, in a single instance, whose book he examines. The names are written on a slip of paper, with the number of mistakes each has made. Then the man with fewest mistakes, say six, is given the highest mark, say 98%. This is almost exactly the relation the best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose...
CORNELL has taken the earliest opportunity offered by the opening of the spring term at Ithaca, to hold a meeting, and decide on our challenge for a University race; and the reply, which we regret to say is in the negative, is printed in this issue. Our challenge, which the Ithaca newspapers considered as highly impertinent, was understood in its right spirit by the members of the Cornell Navy, and it is only the peculiar conditions laid down in our letter, and the previous arrangements of the Cornell crew, that prevent them from rowing a race which would...
What shall I say about the Glee Club? If the Pierian surprised us, the Glee Club did so still more, for they certainly have never before sung with half so much strength and finish. Their shading was very good. A fine effect was produced in the coda of the "Summer Morning," where a forte passage was immediately followed by a delicate pianissimo. "The Water-Lily" had much fine work in it, but seemed in spots weak, on account of the straining on the first tenor part. "The Three Glasses" and the "Champagne Song" seemed to be the most popular...
Popularity, did you say? Humbug! Spider is not unpopular because he gets high marks, but because he talks about them. Low marks do not hurt a fellow much, but high marks will do him good, if he is modest about them. But it is unkind to accuse me of truckling for popularity. I was talking about the system. Any system that breeds such fellows as Spider is an unmitigated evil...