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Turning to Association Foot Ball, which cannot fail, its good qualities having been fairly tested, to become as popular with you as it has with us. The game has advanced with much greater strides than the Rugby game, and bids fair to become the favorite. The playing of it is not confined to the fall season, it is taken up with equal vigor in the spring, and in some parts of Ontario is played throughout the entire year, winter and all. The game is confined almost exclusively to Ontario. Here we have fifty or more first-class clubs, the majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball in Canada. | 1/9/1885 | See Source »

Several gentlemen, presumably freshmen, fail to observe the rules of the reading room of the library, in respect to loud conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

...Princetonian says: "The Professors of English at Harvard now excuse editors of the college papers from essay writing This cannot fail to have a good effect on Harvard journalism. The editors will have more time for their journalistic work, and competition for editorial boards will be stronger. This ought to be tried in Princeton." We should like to inform the Princetonian, and also a hundred or so other college papers in which this delusive item has appeared, that the Harvard editor has as hard a grind in his English work as anyone else, and is not exempt at all from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1884 | See Source »

...connection with the agitation concerning the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance, we print an article from the New York Times upon this subject. We are all familiar with the views held by the college press, but the stand taken by the outside press cannot fail to be noted with interest by all who have this reform at heart. The writer says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compulsory Prayers. | 12/8/1884 | See Source »

...game is demoralizing to the spectators mainly through its brutality; unfair play they usually fail to recognize. We often heard cries of "kill him." "break his neck" "slug him," "hit him," "knock him down," from those around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Committee's Report. | 12/4/1884 | See Source »

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