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...would be impossible to enumerate even a small portion of the cant slang words in use, for every college has a dialect of its own, and a small dictionary would be required to contain the most common. Some persons claim that they can tell from what college a man hails by the slang he uses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Slang. | 6/18/1885 | See Source »

FORENSICS.Junior Forensics will be returned Monday, June 8, from 3.30 to 4.30 P. M., in Sever 11. It is urged that as far as possible the lists of subjects for the Junior Forensic Examination be handed in at the same time and place. Each list must contain four subjects, and must be signed with the name of the student offering it. It is requested that a card of the size of a postal card be used for each list, and that the list be written on one side of the card; it is hoped that the students will regard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 6/6/1885 | See Source »

...hall all the evidence of his guile safely wrapped up in a mass of waste paper. In preparing elaborate cribs, more time is frequently consumed than would be necessary to master the subject. Some of the cribs are works of art, and could serve as text books, containing nearly every part, major and minor, touched upon by the class in the study of the subject. Others are mere outlines, and still others contain nothing but the most difficult portions of the branch on which they are to aid their concoctors and manipulators. Some men make "cribbing" a science, and pride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming and Cribbing at Yale. | 6/4/1885 | See Source »

...concerned if it were to be kept within the bounds prescribed by the circular issued by the faculty. We all know that it is no easy task to restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform. As to the upper-classmen, we have no doubt that the request will be heeded. It may be that we are "counting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1885 | See Source »

...races, or to become associate members and enjoy the privileges of the club at the regatta, should send their names to Theodore Dunham, Holyoke 35, at once, that they may be voted upon at the meeting to-night. The sailing races promise to be exciting and to contain more entries than ever before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 5/11/1885 | See Source »

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