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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which we take issue with the writer in the Advocate; whether the game can be carried on successfully during the coming season. We are confident that if any person has taken the pains to go out on to the grounds on any afternoon of last week, he must have seen enough to convince him that foot-ball, if not the leading sport at present, is at least running a close race with other out-of-door exercises. It will not be owing to the season or to a want of interest, if the team does not show up as creditably...
...students, but from recent occurrences it appears not. When men visit the Hall and deliberately insult the students while at their meals by standing with their hats on, if their conduct is hinted at as being disagreeable, by the medium of feet in conjunction with the floor, whoever is seen making any disturbance is pounced upon by the Directors and expelled or suspended, to serve as a warning to others. What right the Directors have to do this we fail to see, unless it be for the reason that as the authority to govern in the Hall has been deputed...
...smallness of the student part of the audience, compared with what it ought to be, cannot be attributed to the incapacity of the professors, but rather to the laziness and ignorance of what was being lost on the part of the students; for often there were to be seen in the audience gray heads, who did not consider their time misspent, but listened with enthusiastic appreciation. One of our professors, who gave a course himself, when the programme was announced, advised his classes not to miss such an opportunity, and said that he should become a student again himself...
...fifth is on that well-worn subject, Memorial Hall, and lays considerable stress on the fact of eight barrels of meat "in an advanced state of de-co position" having been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...
...seen an angry cloud of smoke...