Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first inning Harvard made three runs, to one for Yale; in the second we again scored three, and Yale retired for nothing; but in the third, Nevins having been substituted for A very in the pitcher's position, we experienced a similar fate, Yale getting two. The Nine soon became accustomed to Nevin's eccentric underhand throws, and punished him for two, five, and two, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, while New Haven only obtained a two and a one in the fifth and sixth. At this point the score showed fifteen runs in our favor against...
...origin of the plan is due to an association of Boston ladies, who also undertake the conduct of the examinations, which will be held in Boston. The College, however, stands ready to make a similar arrangement with any association in the country which can guarantee a sufficient number of candidates. Such a system has been operating successfully during the past ten or twelve years at the English Universities...
...election of editors for the Cornell Era has taken place at Cornell. They are chosen by a class vote at the end of the Sophomore year. The opinion has been here expressed that the papers of our own University would be likely to obtain better editors by a similar system than by the one now in practice. In reply, we would state that, as it seems to us, a class election would be open to serious objections. A man's ability as a writer cannot be correctly judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have...
...unfortunate mistake was made in regard to the "Liber Studiorum" prints in our last issue. The set bought for the collection is complete, and is one of the thirty-two similar sets found in Turner's house after his death...
...have given any mineral or rock, can we remember its color or its degree of hardness better by reading about it, or by actually seeing and handling specimens of the subject described? A few years ago Professor Cooke, in giving a series of lectures on a course similar in some respects to this one, secured to the students the advantages of specimens. Can they not now be thus accommodated? Boylston Hall contains, or did contain, a collection which embraces just what is needed; can it not be used...