Word: columnism
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...account of the financial condition of the University Nine is given by the treasurer in another column. So far the Nine has managed to pay its expenses through the year, without asking for subscriptions except for their uniforms. They have played many games, and the gate-money taken has usually met their expenses, without leaving a surplus. This week they play two games, - one in Boston and the other in Taunton; and next week two on Jarvis. Saturday the 24th they go to New Haven and play with Yale on Monday; they go then to play Trinity and Princeton...
...rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point out, in detail, its evil effects, would take more space than we can give in this column. We only wish to say here, that we have made careful inquiries concerning the intended working of the law; that we have been told by one of the authorities that a man who had forty-nine per cent in one mid-year examination, even if he had eighty or a hundred...
...another column Gabriel Conroy, the latest work of Mr. Bret Harte, is spoken of as the new story by Rev. E. E. Hale, - a statement which, if true, will probably involve lawsuits and a literary scandal of the first magnitude...
...College. They know that the more prominent the object of an attack is, the more attention the attack - whatever its merits may be - attracts; and, considering the Faculty of the College to be on the whole the most prominent body in Cambridge, they have attacked the Faculty in a column of what I suppose to have been intended for polished irony. The excuse for their attack is found in certain tickets, recently issued by order of the President and not of the Faculty, which they appear to regard as mere tickets of admission, for everybody connected with the College...
...Courant is much troubled because knickerbockers have made their appearance here. It reprovingly remarks that "Cambridge men have now the reputation of affecting the swell," and tells us, in another column, that in New Haven "three-and-a-half-inch paper collars are all the rage...