Word: months
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Communication corrects the mis-statement in Mr. Fuller's article in the October number. The Month is a curious compilation of facts chiefly left over from the last issue. It also includes a summary of the foot ball games, the finances of the athletic clubs, and some advance sheets of the catalogue. It these items and a description of the new janitor system saw "the broader livers of development in the university," the Month is fulfilling its announced purpose...
...annual Fall Athletic games held last month, no college records were broken although a number of close records were made. No particularly promising material for this branch of athletics has as yet been shown among the freshmen. In order to keep up the interest in and encourage long distance running a series of Hare and Hounds runs are to be held Saturday afternoons...
...November number of the Monthly which appears today contains two acts of Ibsen's play "The Lady of the Sea" translated by Mr. George R. Carpenter; the last two acts to be published in the December number. This is the first English translation of this much talked of social drama. Ibsen stands today for the protest against the complicated mechanical drama so much in vogue, in place of which he gives us plays deepening for their interest on the steady development of one strong and simple the me. His work and his theory have been the subject of sharp discussion...
...seems to us is distinctly rushing college work. It is the purpose of the examination to test the student's ability, to find out how well his college work has been done thus far. Unfortunately for the fairness of the test, however, the student has been forced in the month just passed to devote much of his time to the production of the thesis. Accordingly if his thesis is not counted he is hardly represented by the hour examinations. Why the thesis cannot take the place of the hour examination we cannot see. The faculty profess the greatest desire...
Yesterday afternoon in Sever 11, Professor Francke began the course of lectures which the instructors of the German department will deliver to the freshman during this and next month...