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...conditions for the admission examinations were as follows:- "Whoever shall be able to read Cicero or any other such like classical author at sight and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose, and decline perfectly the paradigms of names and verbs in the Greek tongue. Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." It was certainly a higher standard in the classics than we have at the present day, for there are very few who can speak and write Latin with ease and correctness. Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college...
...regular weekly mock court at the Law School this afternoon at three o'clock, Mr. Cushing and Mr. Wright will speak for the plaintiff, and Mr. Osborne and Mr. Ranson for the defendant. Prof. Ames will preside at the trial...
President C. D. Rinehart of the Yale Kent Club has already secured two speakers for the course of five lectures to be given under the auspices of the club. They are ex-Congressman Frank Hurd of Ohio, who will speak on tariff reform, on April 18, and Hon. Simon Stern of New York, whose subject and date have not yet been decided upon. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, will be invited to deliver one of the lectures...
...regard to the complaint we do not think, but we know that we speak for the college in emphatically denouncing the action of the spectators in the hissing which played a prominent part in some of the sparring bouts. That an excited crowd will blindly follow its sudden impulses, if given a start by one bolder than his fellows we know, but men should control and hide such open bursts of feeling, and must do so it the gentlemanly character of Harvard sports is to be kept up. The hissing once started, it was easy to keep it up without...
Yale's junior exhibition is fixed for March 22d. The following men from '89 will speak: Storrs, Griggs, Parsons, Donnelly, McQuaid, Smith, Welch, Wells...