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The Princetonian thus describes a nightmare of our faculty who are supposed to witness a Yale-Princeton baseball game a hundred years hence. The players take their places and the game is called. "The ball whirls through the air with velocity, the catcher motions one of his assistants to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT-MARE OF THE HARVARD FACULTY. | 1/31/1884 | See Source »

A prose fantasy by the English poet Lang, describes the beauties and mysteries of an ideal Oriental Paradise concluding his description with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROFESSOR IN AN EASTERN PARADISE. | 1/30/1884 | See Source »

Ward, of the Columbia Law School, has consented to come down two days in the week and train the nine. [Acta.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/29/1884 | See Source »

In addition to those already mentioned, he claims for it the following advantages: "1. The college is sending out a better breed of men." Under this head he speaks of the good influences produced upon the preparatory schools and he also quotes from President Eliot's remarks, which summarize the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. RICHARDS ON COLLEGE ATHLETICS. | 1/28/1884 | See Source »

You can tell much of the habits of a man by looking at his books and seeing how be treats them. To students, of all men, the care of books is interesting. To some men, the books become more valuable the longer they are used, to others, their text books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CARE OF BOOKS. | 1/28/1884 | See Source »