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...CARL AUGUST DEGERSDORFF...
...college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding freshmen, or otherwise violently communicate with them, to the effect that on this eventful evening free drinks should be standing ready for the august members of the sophomore class at which symposium the freshman hosts should prepare themselves for either use or entertainment. Of course these notices are accompanied with the usual threats in case of their refusal. It may occur to many of our modern student readers to wonder how such conduct could be reconciled...
Prof. William Cook of the Institute of Technology, who received an accidental and fatal wound while hunting in August last, was connected with this college for eleven years as Instructor and Assistant-Professor of German. Many members of the class of '87 re member with gratitude his earnest and zealous work of instruction, and recall with pleasure the sincerity and warmth of his interest in them and their studies...
...National Championship Tennis Tournament takes place at Newport, from the 23rd of August to the 26th...
...split one's lungs in starting a blaze which no one cares to prevent, in setting off cannon-crackers alone and unobserved, or in blowing long and loudly on a tin horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body, (whose action on this subject has been perfectly rational, except that they attribute too great significance to these occasional outbursts,) that interference in such cases is seldom wise, whether on the part of faculty or students, and that "prohibition seldom prohibits...