Word: downs
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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IT is reported that Dr. Young will have Hist. 7 and Roman Law next year, although these courses are put down for Professors Macvane and Gurney, respectively.
THE bath tubs in the Gymnasium have been abused. Some persons who were too aristocratic to lie down would put the cricket in the tub and sit on it. This, of course, was ruining the bottom of the tubs, and to stop it the crickets have been taken away and...
THE Acta Columbiana has several Harvard items, among others a list of "those trying for the Sophomore Crew," and something about substitutes on the 'Varsity, distributed among their own locals without any mention of the fact that they don't belong to Columbia. It must astonish Columbia Sophs. to find...
THOSE who have read the last annual report of the President will remember the recommendation contained there of establishing a system of promotion for instructors: a Tutor to be raised, after a certain time, to the rank of Assistant Professor; an Assistant Professor to the rank of Professor. The recommendation...
- Punch.THEY have had a great row at Oxford because all the students of University College, Oxford, have been "sent down," i.e., suspended, for screwing up a proctor's door.