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...even of tradition, in the athletic annals of the college that a freshman nine has never beaten Yale. Yet there are a few now living who can remember that '81 was the last class to beat Yale in base-ball, and in view of a coincidence which shall later appear, it may not be uninteresting to '86 to know just how the thing was done...
...caught without the wall in ordinary dress. At Oxford, there is among the students, a general disposition to avoid the dress as much as possible, while at Cambridge it is hardly good form to go without it. At a wine party at Cambridge a student is not likely to appear without his gown; at Oxford he is sure to come in ordinary evening dress...
...Butler in 1883, each one, with one exception, (namely, Increase Sumner, in 1797,) has had his degree, and since 1840 there has been an unbroken line of governors who have had honorary degree conferred upon them. The men represent every distinct shade of political feeling, and it does not appear that the college has taken any note of a man's politics or standing - the fact that he was governor was apparently sufficient...
...given by Harvard, a thing which few other men in the country are able to do. This certainly implies a vast amount of learning in his excellency, and it was, perhaps, in consideration of this that Williams College some years ago dubbed him LL. D. The governor does not appear to be so strong, however, in English literature as he is in Latin. Friday last, in the course of a speech, he referred to Longfellow's "Brook" and quoted the lines...
...have once before regaled our readers with some choice specimens of Western college journalism. We cannot resist the temptation to again hold up the scintillations of one of these bright children of genius. The following "personals" appear in a late number of the College Transcript, Ohio, Wesleyan University...