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Our eleven played the first championship game of the season at Princeton Saturday, and were defeated by the Jersey men by a score of 26 points to 7. The weather was everything that could be desired and the grounds were in first rate condition at the time play was called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 11/19/1883 | See Source »

But it is not the fact that "students pass from any school to the university without examinations." At some of those named above, examiners-dis-tinguished fellows of the colleges-go down annually from Oxford and Cambridge to the schools, and examine, chiefly by papers,-as the Harvard examiners now...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. | 11/15/1883 | See Source »

If any measures are to be taken in regard to a professional coach for the nine, it is high time that they should be brought forward. The nine has passed through one season unaided by any outside skill, and the result speaks for itself. There is no use in continually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/14/1883 | See Source »

Wesleyan presented a strong team, and played in good style. Their rushers broke through continually in the first half. They tackled surely and passed well. The kicking of the halfbacks, Saxe and Beatty, was also remarkable. The playing off-side, which Wesleyan has down to a science, was quite effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON VS. WESLEYAN. | 11/13/1883 | See Source »

There are those who insist that Dr. Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEIGHING STUDENTS. | 11/13/1883 | See Source »