Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this department. We are glad to learn also that this course, if successful, will be the beginning of a series of University Lectures, given under the control of the University, but supported by outside subscriptions. It is certainly a much more sensible plan to give lectures of this sort in Sanders Theatre, and have them open to the public, than to confine them to resident graduates and a few others, as was done in the former courses...
...Holworthy, especially, are not pleasant to imagine, and the other buildings in the Yard are almost as bad. We are glad that the Herald has called attention again to this lack of fire-escapes, for the best way to move the powers that be in a matter of this sort is to bring outside pressure to bear upon them...
...does not seem to us that it is anything but just to ask that men who have been in College for from one to three years, and have contributed to its support during that time, should have some advantages given them in a matter of this sort over those who are just entering. But the fact probably is, that considerations of justice have probably never been thought of by the authorities. The reasons which induce the College to offer good rooms to sub-Freshmen are of course perfectly evident; the extortionate prices which are charged for rooms in the Yard...
...work - is more fully carried out. By the establishment of the several grades, honors may influence the work not only of those who are studying for a Commencement part or for summa cum laude, but of every man whose marks are over seventy per cent; for prizes of some sort will be within easy reach...
...might be worth while. Although Harvard and Yale send no crews to the regatta this year, Columbia and Cornell will each be represented by an eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from all that we can learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat for it will be considered a defeat...