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Having told you what the "co-ed" is, how and when she came, how she lives and where, I can better answer the questions you put in the letter which called forth this communication...
...misrepresentations in a letter from Cornell to a Western paper, which you copied and which was recopied by the Era with comments, which amounted to an endorsement, have drawn forth an indignant rejoinder from Prof. J. E. Oliver, the distinguished mathematician. It was insinuated in uncomplimentary terms, by the correspondent referred to, that the Cornell faculty was subjected to humiliating tyranny by President White. Professor Oliver is personally responsible for the statement that "the president would be the very last man to seek to impose his wishes as law upon his colleagues as against their own judgments and that...
...just seated himself for "a quiet rubber" with a few men from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries of "No popery," "Down with the Pope," and cheers for the "Church of England." The noise called forth fresh recruits from the adjoining colleges, and the matter assumed such grave importance that the heads of Pembroke ordered the room to be opened. This was not easily done, because the "oak" had been screwed up for the occasion, and trouble had been anticipated. When Mr. Grissell had been taken...
...feet 6 8-10 inches. The height was cleared with ease by all the contestants. Atkinson failed at 5 feet 2 3-10 inches. As the bar rose, the failures on the first and second trial became numerous, but the success on the third trial always called forth rounds of applause. Mr. Stebbins failed at 5 feet 3 8-10 inches, leaving the event to Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark and Mr. Stebbins both show promise of becoming as good jumpers as we have...
Most college poetry consists of "grinds on the profs," celebration of athletics, or, last and most popular, love. We can't make fun of our instructors, we are not allowed to, it would not be ladylike. We haven't any crew or ball teams to call forth praise or blame, and we can't write love songs without giving ourselves away. - [Vassar Miscellany...