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PEOPLE outside of college seem to think that we are in a sort of lion-lying-down with-the-lamb condition here, and are all loving friends. "Of course you know John Grinder; he is in your class," they say; - John G. being a man whom you know merely in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE FRIENDSHIP. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

Another circumstance that does not lead to general harmony is the existence of so many personal enmities among the men; you cannot find any one who does not detest two or three of his classmates. Beck said something slighting of Holworthy; it was reported to Holworthy by some of those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE FRIENDSHIP. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

TO-MORROW the long-mooted question in regard to supremacy on the Foot-Ball field between Yale and Harvard will be decided. Don't fail to attend; admission only fifty cents. Game begins at 2.30; Boston grounds.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

The College papers are always filled with complaints about the required themes and forensics, now because they are too numerous, and again because they are too few; now because the subjects are too difficult, and again - but no, I don't remember that the subjects are ever criticised as being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

But does Harvard claim the "championship"? Would she assume the title even if it were her due? We sincerely trust not; in this country of "champion pie-eaters," "champion walkers," etc., etc., we should hope that no gentleman or set of gentlemen would aspire to be called "champion" anything. As...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »