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A genuine "no popery riot" has occurred at Oxford. The facts are these: On a Saturday night near the end of February, a dignified emissary of the papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is...
The New York Times fulminates on the subject as follows: "The total absence of any sense of humor among the students of American colleges is a very curious phenomenon. From the time that the American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows...
Harvard College appears to have carried athletic training to its farthest extent, but when we consider that the Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks...
RUNNING HIGH KICK.Cary, '86; Kimball, '86; Fessenden, '86; Soren, '83, and Fogg, '85, were entered. This event was introduced at Harvard for the first time last year, when Mr. Soren kicked a height of 8 feet, 4 inches. This does not count as a record, however, as the kicking was...
Some of us being anxious to see Harvard College, or the group of buildings going generally under that name at Cambridge, and others of us to get to Longfellow's house and garden, we chartered a carriage and took Harvard first, pulling up at the handsome pile called the Harvard...