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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Marlin, a Yale sophomore, who plays in the Lincoln polo team of New Haven, is claimed by the papers of that city to be the best polo rusher in the country. Probably they have never heard of Tully or Cotter, whose equals have not yet been found...
...pronounced by the Advertiser to be "the rendezvous for young men of wealth and education.' The "Royal," as the establishment is called, is said to count among its best customers the undergraduates of Harvard and other colleges. "The freshmen and sophomores of the colleges, and those upper classmen whose taste for miscellaneous gambling outlives their verdancy, make the "Royal" the centre of their senseless and criminal amusement. It is reported that gambling at Harvard and other colleges has increased rapidly within a few years, and although most of the older students who gamble play mainly among themselves, the fact that...
...great pity that the college is so poor that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward...
...second number of the present volume of the Advocate will be ready at Sever's to-day, at 4 P.M. The paper will be delivered promptly to all subscribers whose names are on the list before that time, Subscribe at Sever...
...believe that our actions and characters are wholly determined by physical causation, we must regard sin as a disease or deformity, which may make us dangerous and disgusting, but cannot make us guilty. If we believe, on the contrary, that the law of our being is a spiritual law whose essence is freedom; if we believe that this natural freedom is abdicated when it is abused (and would that be freedom which could not be abused and abdicated?)-if we believe this, not only do we save our conscience by showing a rational ground for our consciousness of guilt...