Word: towns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tilt in a wordy warfare over some such subject as the freshman ball game, there seems to be at least one subject on which all are agreed, and that is in denouncing the "mucker" nuisance. Nor. is it alone at Cambridge and New Haven, but at every college town of any considerable size these little nuisances seem to make their baneful presence felt. We can heartily join with the Yale Record when it breaks fourth in the following wail...
...subject, Their information about it is mainly derived from the brilliant pictures of university life which the English novel occasionally affords us. It would be difficult to imagine a life more free and pleasant than that which the Oxford student enjoys. Although the social entertainment and amusements of the town of Oxford are few, he need never be at a loss for occupation, for the university is most completely a world by itself, which possesses innumerable sources of amusement on account of this very absence of outside attractions. Oxford presents a birds-eye-view, as it were, of English social...
...this recognized that, where it is possible, dormitories have been frequently done away with, and in every such case the improvement in college discipline has been immediate and striking." And on the other hand, although the system of allowing students to distribute themselves among private families in the town has great advantage, still it has many drawbacks, as, for instance, the scarcity of good accommodations, or the high price that will necessarily be charged. "Another evil both systems have in common. One of the most unfortunate things in college life hitherto has been the fact that students have considered themselves...
...records made upon it, everything hitherto being but practice and not counting as a record. The times made were good and the track gives good satisfaction. The number of spectators was small, as is usually the case at these preliminary meetings. Besides, yesterday many were attracted in town by the desire to see the class races. Mr. T. J. Coolidge, '84, had the races in charge and acted as starter. The order of races was as follows...
...students lodge in houses in the town and board anyshere and everywhere. Their rooms are, as a rule, scantily furnished. Numerous swords line the walls, pipes lie here and there. A table rimmed with beer-stains, books, a few chairs, a bed, mugs of various sizes and fantastic devices-these constitute the principle bric-a-brac. The odor of stale tobacco prevades everything. Excepting as a mere resting-place the student seldom uses his room. HE is a Bohemian to the core. You may oftenest find him in a beer-shop, discussing obstruse, metaphysical problems through clouds of tobacco smoke...