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...certainly a higher standard in the classics than we have at the present day, for there are very few who can speak and write Latin with ease and correctness. Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college year, in the College Hall, also disputations at which either the president or one of the fellows presided. These declamations and disputations were held once a month "in the presence of the magistrates, ministers and other scholars," to test the progress of the students in "learning and godliness." For three weeks in June each year all students of two or more years...
...landladies of these boarding-houses object, it seems, to having the delivery boy enter at such an early hour, and consequently the doors are locked and the boy is given the alternative of leaving the papers on the steps outside, or of not leaving them at all. In either case the subscribers do not get their papers. If they will investigate the matter themselves, they will find that it is not our fault, but that of the people with whom they lodge...
...between F. Cabot, Jr., V. S., and E. L. Hambleton, Sp. Cabot won the first fall in 4 min. 13 sec. and the second in 1 min. 23 sec. W. L. Monroe, '89, and S. Paine, '90, were drawn for the second bout. The time limit elapsed without either's getting a fall. In the second round Paine won a fall in 4 min. 10 sec. Monroe did not appear for the third round and so the bout went to Paine. F. Dana, L. S., and C. C. Horne, '91, the heavy-weight boxers, now came in. Dana...
Week-day morning prayers at 8.45 a. m. No seats will be assigned for either officers or classes...
...arrangements. The room should be comfortably warm (and I myself am not a fresh air fiend), but when it gets so hot that one is very apt to fall asleep and dream of purgatory, the study of serious matters is wrongly interfered with. As it is now, one must either be melted or open the windows, getting a bad cold either way; or be the victim of a dull headache, which makes it impossible to do any good work...