Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Well, it is rather hard to commit one's self on such a proposition as the foregoing. How would the league sound? It might sound all right one way and then again it might not; for instance to a student from that cradle of athletics - the University of Pennsylvania - it might sound all right. There is melody in the name Pennsylvania; then, too, the derivation of the word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very...
...members of the first-year class of the Harvard Law School, having learned with regret of the death of our late fellow-student, Elliot Perkins Hood, unanimously express our earnest sorrow at the loss of one whom we had earned not only to admire for his intellectual ability, but to like and respect for his manly character and courteous bearing. We also extend our sincere and regretful sympathy to his relatives and friends in their sad bereavement...
...conscious foundings of universities. A university grew, and was not made. We may well doubt if even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion of the manner in which they would broaden out in the course of two centuries and make the purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education...
...publish on our first page to-day a clipping from the Boston Globe in regard to the Columbia race. The fact that Yale and Columbia have patched up a combination in this rowing matter was at first doubted among the students who heard of the affair yesterday. And it seems that they doubted with great propriety. The proposition of admitting Columbia into the four-mile race with Yale on the Thames is preposterous. Every rowing man and almost every student in the country knows that the course at New London is utterly unfit for a race between three crews...
ARTICLE VII. Any student who has been pursuing a course of study through the entire collegiate year and whose college expenses are in no way borne by men connected with base-ball interests, shall be eligible for a college nine. Any student who shall play on a professional base-ball nine as a member thereof, or receive pay thereof, shall not be eligible. Questions of eligibility to be investigated and decided by the Judiciary Committee on the application of any college...