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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges. The commission now contemplates raising the requirements in modern languages, and should the plan succeed, all the colleges interested would probably adopt the same standard. Similarity in entrance examinations is not only impossible but undesirable, yet a certain uniformity will undoubtedly tend to strengthen the bonds between the various colleges and facilitate greatly the preparatory work of many young...
...some places or other, and it is our duty to find it out. Students at college are continually coming into doubt as to the faiths, but let them hold firmly to their blind faiths at the same time that they are active in their search for truth in the various walks of life. Whatever our faiths are, let us lead true, noble lives; let us be gentlemen at least. The choir sang anthems by Kent and Buck, also the hymn "Lead Kindly Light," by Calkin...
...Grinnell," and "'Mid Musty Manuscripts," and several bits of verse. There are letters from the captains of the Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell crews, accompanied by some statistics, supporting the view that athletics do not have a bad effect upon studies. The Eclectic and Critical Department contains comments on the various college papers, and clippings from many exchanges. The first extract is an editorial from the CRIMSON of Nov. 22. An editorial from the Advocate is also quoted at length. The Yale Record is mentioned as "Yale's Lampoon." Finally comes a record of the championship games of foot-ball...
...CRIMSON has received a bound copy of Ayer's Almanac for 1889. Besides the various editions in English adapted to North and South America, it contains editions in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian-Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, and Welsh; also specimen pages of the pamphlets issued by the firm in eleven other languages, including Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Armenian, Bulgarian, Polish, Hawaiian, Gujarati (India), Burmese, and Chinese...
After the introduction of the game by the class of '66, nines were formed in the various classes and many a stubborn contest was played by the different teams. These games brought out many men who showed proficiency in playing, and on October 12, 1864, a 'varsity club was formed. This club played many games with representatives of the different colleges, and with other amateur nines. In 1868, it received a challenge from Yale to play a championship game, in which the condition was that the men on both teams should be chosen from the academically departments. This challenge...