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...exactly know what to do, but he finally yielded and subscribed for half a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...tried another door, and was let in. "Good evening. I am come to ask you whether you would subscribe to the Crimson," and, mindful of my first visit, added an explanation. "It is one of the college papers you know. I have just received eight subscription from your classmates over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...these, that Captain Bancroft has coached them whenever he could spare the time, and when he has been prevented from doing this, other members of the first eight have taken his place. It seems as if the men who are now rowing in the University Crew ought to know enough about pulling an oar to coach the second eight and coach them well. At any rate the second eight are doing good work, and the only thing to complain of is the small number of men who are actively interested in working for positions on it. We would recommend that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...Cornell Navy has withdrawn its challenge to our Boat Club, on the pretence that it is indignant because that challenge has not yet been formally accepted. The indignation may seem natural enough to those who do not know that an informal letter was written some time since to the Cornell boating authorities by the Secretary of the Harvard University Boat Club, stating that circumstances prevented his sending the formal acceptance at that time, but assuring the Cornell men that the challenge would doubtless be accepted very shortly. The members of this University may naturally wish to know what reasons have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...Arts have taken the place of these lectures, and we now ask for lectures for the benefit of undergraduates, - just such courses, in short, as our professors seem to be so successful in giving elsewhere. There are plenty of subjects about which many of us would be glad to know something, but are prevented from taking any of the special elective courses offered in them from lack of time. It seems to us that much would be done for those who are too much inclined to run in special ruts by giving courses of lectures to be delivered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »