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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selecting the contractor, and the requisite guarantees and pledges were exacted of him by the college. But if there is any general desire for the present experiment of a cooperative dining association to continue longer after all that has already happened, it will no doubt be a comparatively easy thing to devise some scheme to that end. But the cautious observer will be inclined to doubt of any ultimate success in that case. For what new grounds of hope has the Memorial Hall Dining Association further to offer...
...Haven correspondent of the N. Y. Herald has written an interesting letter to his paper on the prospects for the Yale-Harvard race next summer. He says: "While Yale and Harvard have trained differently, and have rowed a different stroke, both as regards style and rapidity, one thing seems to have been satisfactorily demonstrated, which is, that the most experienced crew is pretty sure to win." A tie is to be disposed of at the next race, continues the correspondent, for Yale defeated Harvard in '76, '80 and '81, and Harvard defeated Yale...
...university proper; (3) private tutors, or "coaches," from whom forty years ago came nearly all the instruction at English universities, who are now much less active, because both university professors and college teachers have become far more efficient than they were then. In England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would rather be that they should exist as a test of teaching. The examinations, though very old, had become purely formal in the last century: their present importance is comparatively recent. In the Cambridge Triposes, students have heretofore...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There is one shocking thing connected with the management of this university that I have long noticed, and which I must at last speak out about. Above all the cries for plank side-walks and for better ventilation, this one calls loudly for redress. That men have been patient of it so long shows how long-suffering, how unindependent the college student is. I refer, sir, to the glaring evil - yea, insult - to every Harvard man of having the covers of all blank books for examination purposes colored blue. Blue, sir, the color of our rivals...
...next thing fished up was a dainty little missive, which the editor read as follows...