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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was the custom in almost all American colleges to punish students by fines; and indeed it was not until this century that fines were abolished at Harvard. Some colleges were said to derive quite a revenue from this source, and were not, therefore...
If things continue to so at the pace they are going at present, Oxonians who went down in 1880 will be unable to recognize the face of their Alma Mater in 1890. She is not only changing her normal complexion, but also her physical features most rapidly. Four new buildings...
Just before our Christmas holiday, a little down east "schoolmarm" desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old...
"But, O Lord, nothing is hid from thin eye. Thou nasty look down through its comely Mansard roof, and through its thick walls of brick and mortar. Thou knowest its hideous incompleteness within. There is no floor upon which to walk through its lovely corridors or its magnificent halls, no...
Having published an article upon our own university crew, we now supplement it by a description of the crew which our rivals will put upon the water this season. We are indebted to an article which recently appeared to an article which recently appeared in the News for the following...