Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very probable that the Yale battery this year will consist of Stagg and Heffelfinger in spite of Stagg's persistent refusal to play. Dalzell will probably play the in-field...
...came to Harvard with the suspicion that it was a poor place for a religious man to come to. My Orthodox friends, both in the East and in the West, warned me of its moral atmosphere. But, after I had spent a half year at Harvard, during which time I made its moral and religious tone a study, I concluded that the fears of my friends were unfounded, and, furthermore, that their ideas had been distorted by such articles as the one written by Quest for the North American Review. Unwilling, however, to rest the matter on my own experience...
...University and class crews have been very energetic in taking advantage of the open weather and getting on the water. For many years no crews have been able to be on the river as early as this, and it is a matter of congratulation that this year the weather has not been severe enough to keep the river frozen over for any length of time...
Brown University will suffer a serious loss in the resignation of its president, Dr. E. G. Robinson, who will withdraw from the presidency of the University at the end of the present college year. Dr. Robinson is now 74 old and during his whole life has been very active. He is still remarkably powerful, physically and mentally, but feels that the fullest development of the college requires the services of a younger...
...Natural Theology. John L. Lincoln, professor of Latin language and literature, is spoken of as a temporary holder of the presidency, but no one has as yet been decided on to fill the place permanently. Prof. Elisha Benjamin Andrews who left the professorship of history and political economy last year to go to Cornell, is one of the most prominent candidates for the presidency and it is highly probable that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated at Brown in 1838 and at Newton in 1842. He preached for a while in the South...