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...President told the following story of himself at the recent dinner of the New York Harvard Club. He said that, contrary to the usual course of nature, he was growing younger instead of older as years advanced. About twenty years ago, when he was a tutor and proctor, he was disturbed one night by a noise in the Yard, and, going out to see what was the matter, he heard a voice exclaim, "Here comes old Eliot." But last winter, walking into town one evening, he met two undergraduates, and heard one say to the other, when he had passed...
...last issue we made some remarks concerning the Registrar, for which we wish to apologize publicly, as we have already done privately. The remarks were caused by a misapprehension for which the Faculty -by their leave -were partially responsible. The facts of the case are these: A year ago a vote was passed by the Faculty, that undergraduates should not be informed of the number of absences from recitations, etc., with which they were charged on the secretary's books, until they were summoned to receive the penalties imposed for such absences. Accordingly the Registrar, in the proper performance...
...wooden sheds of the cheapest construction, and the crews had always paid their own expenses. But those good old days are gone. Rowing has become a science, and training-tables uniforms, hats, and sundry other items have swelled the cost of a crew into the thousands. Ten years ago the undergraduates gave the "Varsity" its boat. What does it not give them...
...hundred years ago, Westchester County, from Byram River to Williams Bridge, was the famous Neutral Ground, the scene of Cooper's Spy and the favorite haunts of the Cow-boys and Skinners. The Cow-boys were British; the Skinners, American skirmishers. Occasionally these gentlemen would have an encounter, but for the most part they preferred to amuse themselves with burning down the houses, and driving off the cattle of their enemies, or - mutato nomine, for it amounts to the same things - in borrowing from their friends. Between the two the Westchesterites had a happy time, and no mistake. Sometimes...
...students of the University of Pennsylvania, inspired by the example of Moody and Sankey, started a revival not long ago. Somebody having questioned the desirableness of college prayer-meetings, a writer in the University Magazine comes forward to defend them. He thinks that moral and intellectual improvement should walk hand in hand, and that without prayer-meetings intellect will run away from morals, in which case disaster will of course follow. In proof of this he alleges the following startling example...