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Dates: during 1870-1879
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But if Ossip has such fine feelings about exactitude, he should himself have been more exact. We did not (though he so asserts) "admit" that our only expectation in censuring H. H. was to make him " reflect upon the sally of wit," and we have shown (contrary to "Ossip's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

ON next Tuesday evening President McCosh, of Princeton, will deliver a lecture before the Inter-collegiate Association on "The importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

"Unlike the Harvard match, there was a noticeable lack of the friendly and gentlemanly spirit which characterized that contest. From the beginning to the end of the game on Saturday, there seemed to pervade the Yale-men a desire to injure and "lay up" our players on every occasion when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

C.ON Monday next Mr. Everett finishes his reading of the "greatest effort of human genius," on which occasion it is his pleasure to read the 11th Book.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

Mathematics was the bane of Sumner's college life. He did not even cut the leaves of some of his text-books in this department; and on one occasion, instead of the simple "Not prepared," he said to the instructor, "I don't know; you know I don't pretend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMNER IN COLLEGE,* | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

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