Word: various
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with other clubs. The great difference between our rules for playing and those recently adopted by Yale, Rutgers, Columbia, and Wesleyan is an obstacle which will have to be overcome, but satisfactory arrangements will, if possible, be made, and to this end communications are to be sent to the various clubs...
...theories on various social problems are of a nature calculated to provoke discussion. His language is often of a sort which would hardly receive the approbation of an old-fashioned divine. Religious topics and scientific facts are frequently introduced at times when their connection with the subject of discourse is imperceptible. His conversation at its best would never be selected as a model of grammatical purity or refined elegance. The name of every by-way in his neighborhood is to him a household word; but he is a comparative stranger to the highways, and when seen there, is usually observed...
...death of DR. JAMES WALKER, occurring immediately at the beginning of the recess, calls for a respectful mention on our part of a distinguished and venerable man, long identified, in various relations, with Harvard College...
...obtained reasonably. One great good arising from many of the newly formed societies is the bringing together of different class-men. The sprightly Freshman may checkmate the sedate Senior, and the majestic Sophomore discourse learnedly on the origin of metalliferous deposits to an admiring group of members of the various departments of the University. A few years ago one of the papers had a capital article on Whist; and, however this attempt may succeed, perhaps it will awaken more interest in this queen game of cards...
...Virginia University Magazine contains much matter, but very little mind. The Denison Collegian is chiefly remarkable for bad spelling. The Dartmouth has begun to copy its puffs. The Yale Lit. is intensely literary, filling its columns with notices of various books written by Swinburne, Whitman, and a certain Mr. Thackeray...