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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barrett gymnasium has been fitted up for training purposes by the the Base-Ball Association, and batting (sic) is every day practiced there. - Amherst Student...
Yesterday morning a furious runaway horse was stopped on Harvard Street by the courage of a certain member of '86. The heart-felt thanks of the owner rewarded the brave student...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In the beginning of the year, the instructor in sophomore themes conceived the commendable idea of passing the themes round to the students for perusal and criticism. This was to have been kept up throughout the year, unless it proved too complicated. One set of themes was thus distributed, and no more. That was all. No word of explanation was offered in regard to the sudden change. Now, there is no doubt that most of the criticisms were absurd and severe, and probably did neither the writer nor the men of whose work it was written...
Professor Royce in returning the marks in Philosophy 3 adopted a new and desirable plan. Each student received a paper stating the defects in his manner of treating an examination paper and how he could best remedy them...
...German student was once heard to remark: "What a spiritless land this America is, where you cannot find a dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer...