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...season of thesis preparation is especially hard on cats. One senior who has selected an anatomical subject boasts the slaughter already of six felines, and yet his thesis is not finished. [Cornell News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 5/9/1882 | See Source »

...forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 5/6/1882 | See Source »

...series tomorrow, the athletic season for Harvard fairly opens. After that events come crowding thick and fast until the end of the college year. On the same date our team plays a match in lacrosse with Columbia. The training of both the nine and the lacrosse team has been hard and faithful, and both certainly deserve a large share of success whether they win it or not. A week from tomorrow will be one of the most exciting days of the year for the entire body of undergraduates. On that date our first game with Yale will be played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

...present buildings, and the apparent willingness of students to pay any charge for rent, however exorbitant, is sufficient evidence of that. The demand is growing more pressing every year, and would seem to be one that could be justly satisfied by the corporation to their own advantage. It is hard to see why a dormitory built with modern improvements and reasonable accommodations could not be made to yield a sufficient return on the investment to supply in some measure the present deficit in the annual income of the university. If that happy time ever comes when Harvard is free from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...hard glove fight was to have come off this morning between Tom Bates of England and Jim Hurst of Boston, but it was reported last night that the authorities would prevent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »