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Professor von Dobschuts writes on "Die Harvard-Zurufe;" and it is safe to say that our cheer has never before been so learnedly treated. He compares it with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint...
...Synod of the Presbyterian Church of America, assembled at Newburg, N. Y., has declared secret societies to be immoral and degrading...
Poems marked "Derry Cathedral Prize Poem," are to be lodged with the Secretary, Diocesan Synod, Office, Londonderry, on or before February...
...delivery of Lord Rosebery's opening address at the Edinburgh University on Saturday afternoon was preceded by some very disorderly scenes. The students assembled at the Synod Hall in large numbers and behaved in a very noisy manner, throwing peas and beans, shouting, stamping and singing alternately snatches of songs and psalm tunes. A miniature pasteboard chair, placarded "The Celtic Chair," was suspended in the centre of the hall by a string stretching between the two side galleries, and proved the source of much disorder and amusement. Theatrical and circus bills were displayed from the front of the north gallery...