Word: entering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE: Room in Weld last Friday. - Freshman in bed. - Enter Goody...
...call the attention of the athletes in the University to the Columbia Games, which are to take place during the holidays. This plan of allowing members of other colleges to enter seems to us one of the best that has yet been devised on this side of the water. Not only does it promote acquaintance and a friendly feeling among men from different parts of the country, but it should also tend to improve our records, and eventually make them equal, or even surpass, those of the English Universities. The spirit of competition ought to draw out the best efforts...
...Kimball & Co., of that city. We should explain, perhaps, that all tobacco sold in France up to this time has been manufactured by the government. Of late, the demand for other makes has arisen, and the government, to meet it, allowed English and American manufacturers to enter goods for competitive test with a view to the adoption of the best. The fact that Wm. S. Kimball & Co have come out far ahead of all other manufacturers in both countries is unmistakable proof that their goods are the best the world produce. Their tobacco and cigarettes will henceforth be on sale...
...write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest and excitement unknown with...
...Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used...