Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second of the University receptions given by President and Mrs. Dwight was held in Dwight Hall, Tuesday evening and was even more successful than the first one. The number of students and townspeople in attendance was very large and the affair was much enjoyed by those present...
...Yale university in daily practice could easily overcome all foot-ball associations in the country excepting the three leaders. The same is probably true of the Harvard "college" team. At tennis last fall it is said that the Harvard tournament was scarcely at all inferior to the inter-collegiate affair. And in base-ball both universities can and do raise very skillful second nines. But besides, with their resources of large classes and departments, Harvard and Yale can not only equip their representatives for business, but they can enlarge the true blessings of sport, by making it more general...
...interesting to see how the study of medicine as connected with a university course has changed with time; how now it is a separate affair, whereas once it was a compulsory feature of university education. The principal facts in this article are due to Dr. Wright of Toronto University...
Last week the freshmen and sophomores had their first "rush" of the year, and rather to the surprise of the college, '90 was completely done up. It was quite a mild affair, and for the first time in years there was no fight around the cannon. The spirit of hazing has died out here to a very great extent, apparently, and whether due to the gentleness of '90 or the severity of the proctors there has been less this year than ever before. The good effects are plainly visible in the increased number of freshmen seen on the track...
...seems as if the whole affair might be much improved, at any rate made briefer and more pointed, if the debating on the floor were confined to a limited number of speakers on each side. if such were the case, men who have nothing to say might feel a little hesitation in weakening their own side by using up limited time. And again, each side might present a much more forcible argument if the closers of the debate were to devote themselves to summing up the main points brought forward and to answering the objections from the floor instead...