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Cornell is making a bad precedent in importing a mummy. Most colleges get them easier. They are usually harvested after dark and are not always as well preserved as the Cornell scion of the Pharaohs. The students use their scalpels upon them at five dollars a head. Some of the mummies sit in professor's chairs and are nominally alive. These have enough stale jokes in stock to make the average collegian atone for the fun he gets out of it. [Syracuse Standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1884 | See Source »

...hour. Would it not be convenient to open the door early, so that those fortunate enough to get there before the hour could quietly take their seats without being forced through the door by the pressure of the eager crowd behind? At the last lecture the balustrade at the head of the stairs was very nearly broken, and had there been a few more pounds pressure on it, there might have been a serious accident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1884 | See Source »

...Henry L. Daniells, one of the victims of the Gay Head disaster, was not a student at the Institute of Technology as reported, but was attending the Normal Art School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/6/1884 | See Source »

...official report of the affair, Police Lieutenant Blankley says: "Officer Murphy was struck in the head with a stone. There were also four pistolshots fired, apparently at the officers. A man immediately behind the officers claimed to have been shot in the head. The officers could not ascertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLICEMEN. | 2/5/1884 | See Source »

...mutterings against the senior societies, which have been making themselves vaguely heard during the year, came to a head last Friday in a meeting of the senior class. A motion was made that the senior society system "creates a social aristocracy, exercises an undue influence in college politics, fosters a truckling and cowering disposition among the lower classes, creates dissensions and enmity in every class, alieniates the affections of the graduates from the college, stifles the full expression of college sentiment by its control of the college press," and therefore that the class of '84 condemns the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE SENIOR SOCIETIES. | 2/5/1884 | See Source »