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...Thirteen freshmen at Williams were suspended last week for five weeks on account of "irregularities in examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/3/1882 | See Source »

...profits of the Pacific railroads for the past thirteen years amount to $157,716,640. This is in addition to the amounts received for the sale of lands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/24/1882 | See Source »

American students now enter college at the average age of seventeen. We have recently seen an old English book with the date of 1785, in which the average age of "ye freshmen at ye College of Harvard" is given as thirteen years and six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 3/23/1882 | See Source »

...distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time; she has to kiss seven persons, say good-by to thirteen others, send her love to twenty-two relatives, and see to four parcels; she accomplishes it all and has forty-one seconds to spare to tell a dear friend how to mix seven different ingredients into a mince pie. - How long did it take the train to reach Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 3/21/1882 | See Source »

...went out for the first time last Tuesday, and made his presence felt in the boat. He will not begin regular training till the first of May. There are now twenty men training for the nine, but Captain Badger will select from these at the end of the week thirteen who will continue training while the others will cease, except those who will comprise the "consolidated." The men practice in two squads, one under Captain Badger and the other under Mr. Platt, 3d base of the University. The schedule of games for April will probably be as follows, though some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/20/1882 | See Source »

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