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...Association is willing to come to a compromise with the tennis men and agree upon a time to use the ground. If the Lacrosse Team can have the ground from four to five in the afternoon, during the fall, it will not be necessary for the court-holders to abandon their ground before the spring, and meanwhile they will have had an opportunity to make some different arrangements...
...compensation for the mathematical and classical Freshman work. But not content with one injustice, it is now, as the writer understands, proposed to add another : the Faculty are discussing the advisability of doing away entirely with required Rhetoric and Themes. If it were at the same time proposed to abandon required work altogether, there would be room for warm approval; otherwise, English is the last thing to be abandoned, especially while Classics and Mathematics employ nearly three-fourths of the Freshman year. It is this and other similar moves that have led many people to suppose that there exists among...
...this high point, which we'll abandon never...
...enter the lists with an attack on co-education. That subject has been discussed till every one is weary of the subject, but we do believe that our own Alma Mater should remain true to her principles, and we regret deeply to see her even by slow degrees abandon her position by the side of Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, for a new one with Cornell, Oberlin, and Boston University...
...been said of '82 '80 furnished fewer men because she did not happen to have the material of the other classes named, although four 'Varsity men to a class is not a bad average. To conclude, the Crimson does not think that as yet there is sufficient reason to abandon the ground which has been already taken...