Word: selections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rebuff. When these fierce old ladies in boys' clothing invited Yale to join them in their little scheme for monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present champions. - Life. Ah, indeed...
...oratorical contest, Thursday, at Buchtel College, Akron, O., to select a representative to the state inter collegiate contest, there were among the contestants a young lady, named Miss Mary Sibbley, and H. C. Morris, a son of a Chicago millionaire. The judges decided in favor of the young lady, and upon this the father of the young man sprang up and charged the judges with being prejudiced. The son has chalenged the young lady for a second contest for $1000 a side, the stakes to go for the founding of a hospital in Akron, to be named after the successful...
...editorial calling for the works of Cardinal Newman in the English select was written under a misapprehension, as notice has been given that all the works of Newman which the college possesses have been placed on the new English shelves...
...must be a matter of gratification to the instructors in English to perceive the interest taken in the addition to the "English Select" department of the library. Such a convenient arrangement of standard books brings to our notice many works which we, engrossed in our daily work, might otherwise overlook. The communication we publish in another column reminds the gentlemen who have the filling of the new book shelves in charge of the omission of the works of Cardinal Newman. We quite agree with the writer when he urges the advantage to be derived from intercourse with writers of late...
...three new book cases in the reading room of the library are for "English Select" books...