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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students who take Math. D and G, will find Mr. Sawin in Sever 24 Thursday, Feb, 3, at 2, and at 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

...sophomore exhibition. This is decidedly an evidence of increasing devotion to study on the part of the students. The sophomore exhibitions, at which members of the class contested publicly for a prize in oratory, were abolished several years ago by order of the faculty, because the students ceased to take an interest in the contests, and they were miserable failures, and often of disorder among students who attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

DEAR CHAPPIE: - Things are awful dull around here since our anniversary; nothing is going on, except, now and then, a class German, or a club supper. Our president is about to take a short vacation, and it is rumored around among the chaps that he is going to travel with Mr. John L. Sullivan for the purpose of learning to box, as he is going to meet Dr. McCosh with soft gloves in the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Letter. | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

...communication with each other. Under present circumstances, it is principally the members of the athletic teams who enjoy the opportunity of meeting representatives of other colleges, although of course such opportunities are comparatively few and far between. Now it seems to us that college men of literary taste would take great pleasure in making the acquaintance of their fellow-editors in other colleges. Why should not an association, organized for social as well as journalistic purposes, be a most successful instrument for bringing together men of similar tastes in friendly intercourse? We see no reason why the proposed intercollegiate press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

...muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then go into the examination room with a clear head and a calm philosophic frame of mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

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