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...interesting lecture. "The Lost Despatch, the Story of Antietam," is a subject that will in itself draw a good audience, and Col. Allan is a speaker well able to present it. We have already spoken emphatically of the value of these lectures to the college, and of the honor that they bring to the Historical Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/3/1886 | See Source »

...those who expect to try for a one year honor in French at Yale will be required to read at least 1,500 pages of modern French authors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/26/1886 | See Source »

Harvard, again, is not without honor in its own country. In twelve years the undergraduate attendance from Massachusetts has increased 27 per cent., or from 475 to 606. Yale, too, shows a small increase - less than 9 per cent. - in the Connecticut contingent. It used to be the old cry that Harvard was a local institution, while Yale was cosmopolitan. In 1873 no less than 62 1-2 per cent. of the students that flocked to Yale, came from the West, the South, and the Middle States. Today the proportion is about the same. But Harvard has in the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale and Harvard. | 2/26/1886 | See Source »

...score, at the end of his four year's course. Many of the happiest memories of college life are those brought back to us by the sight of some bit of pasteboard tacked upon the door, the sole reminder of an evening of jollity. Let us, then, continue to honor the old Harvard custom, and hand it down for preservation to those who are to fill our places in the years to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1886 | See Source »

...defeat the Columbia freshmen received at the hands of Harvard last year has not in the least discouraged them; on the contrary they are this year making greater efforts than ever before to have victory come to them, and thus gain some honor for the blue and white. They formerly rowed in the gymnasium belonging to the Columbia Grammar School; this, year, however, on account of the increased number trying for positions on the crew, they were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Freshman Crew. | 2/22/1886 | See Source »

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