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...pleasantest features of college life is the opportunity we have of meeting fellows from all parts of our country. Not only is it pleasant, but also it serves to awaken us to the realization that the universe is not centred around any one place, be it in New York, in Boston, in San Francisco, but it is one vast organization which will continue to exist, even of some of those parts which seem to us the most vital are lopped off. We enjoy some of the benefits of travel, even while anchored in one place. We meet fellows from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whence we Hail. | 1/20/1885 | See Source »

Mandell, T. J. Coolidge and W. C. Sturgis of '84, who are making a two years' journey around the world, are now in China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/9/1885 | See Source »

...rainy days for some time it has taken a pretty good "running long" jump to clear the swelling tide. Tuesday the stream was wider than ever, and many poor jumpers failed to clear it. A spring-board on the sidewalk would save the weaker ones the trouble of going around the block...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

...beginning of the new year affords us a favorable opportunity for stopping a moment in our college course and glancing around us, both backward and forward. It is but natural that we should look back, first of all, upon the fall term which has just closed, but which already seems a long way in the past. To many of us, in fact we fear to a great majority, such a glance will give us cause to rejoice that there are still a few weeks before the examinations in which we can endeavor to make up for the time which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/5/1885 | See Source »

...slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive adjectives strung before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vassar Girl at College. | 12/20/1884 | See Source »