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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell began this term with the Harvard system of marking and making recitations optional. It will be adopted there, if the trial proves successful. - Yale News...
Only one man in Yale's three upper classes was dropped during the last term...
...following have been chosen officers of the O. K. for the remaining term: A. B. Houghton, president; L. L. Hight, secretary; W. M. Fullerton, treasurer; C. M. Thompson, librarian...
...offer an inducement to the college poets to pause for a moment from their "pessimistic wailing." We would suggest that if the prize is henceforth permanent, the date at which the papers are due should be in the early autumn, and not in the middle of a college term...
...article entitled "Yale Under President Porter's Administration." The paper shows that a very gradual advance has been made in all departments since Dr. Porter's accession. In 1871, when he was elected, the number of students was 809. At the end of the first five years of his term the average enrollment each year was 950; for the second five years it was 1,028, and for the third five years including 1885, it was 1,078. This year's catalogue has 1,076 names, a gain of 26 per cent. over the showing of 1871. For the three...