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The influence of the native population upon the development of the natural character was the special topic. After touching upon the characteristics of the mixed population that settled California, the lecturer proceeded to give an account of the first forcible measures by which our government gained a foothold in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Royce's Lecture. | 11/3/1885 | See Source »

The students of all the colleges in the country must unite in condemning the action of the person or persons who recently sent marked copies of the New York Tribune, containing a personal attack upon a popular professor, to the students of Yale College. Such interference is in the highest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1883 | See Source »

"We make no statements at random," it says; "proofs are in our possession. Yale wins her games by systematic preconcerted evasions of the rules of play. Yaleism is this-an underhanded and constant evasion of the rules. This, kept up for an hour and a half, told on the matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE AND PRINCETON. | 12/14/1882 | See Source »

There was still some underhanded work that was not fully understood until after the game. Constantly the Yale snapper-back and other of the rushers would make fouls by which advantage would be gained. The referee would almost as constantly decide that he could grant no foul, his statement generally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON. | 12/9/1882 | See Source »

* College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIBBONS. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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