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...loss of Mr. Peabody is unfortunate for the Crew. His place will be hard to fill, and it is hoped that a number of good candidates will come forward at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five degrees. As soon as the blade is far enough back, the head is thrown back, and the catch is immediate and strong. Instead of continuing the slide to a definite number of inches, the whole is used, thus giving the legs sufficient opportunity to do their work. When the men are ready to receive the word "go," the seat is well under the body, the back and arms inclined forward, and the head in position to throw back, the moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

THROUGH the kindness of the editor of the Catalogue the following facts have been taken from the advanced sheets. The whole number of students, 1322, in the several departments of the University are thus distributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW CATALOGUE. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...comparison of this summary with that of last year it will be seen that the number of students has increased in all the departments, except the College proper. The number of Officers of Instruction and Government has now reached 167. Among the noticeable new names are those of Dr. D. A. Sargent, Assistant-Professor of Physical Training and Director of the Gymnasium, and Ko-Kun-Hua, Instructor in Chinese. Under the management and care of Prof. C. S. Sargent, the Arboretum at the Bussey Institution, according to the accounts in the Boston papers, will soon take a conspicuous place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW CATALOGUE. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...room is a "complaint-book," in which members may write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD UNION. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

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