Word: laterizing
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...later dispatch from Dartmouth says that the men are not suspended, the trustees as yet having taken no action. This later communication says that instead of expulsion the with-holding of degrees was recommended. As the matter now stands, there is some uncertainty, and we shall have to wait for further confirmation before finally believing either report...
...water around Union boat-honse bothered the contestants considerably, and soon three of them dropped out. Dunham took the lead at the first stake boat and maintained it to the end, making the last mile in 8 minutes. Rand crossed the line 12 minutes after, and Frothingham 10 minutes later. The second event was the single paddling race, in which there were five entries. This race was close and well contested throughout by three canoes, two contestants giving out before the three-fourths turn. Livingston came in first, closely followed by Webster and Walsh in the order named. The wind...
...chances of Harvard winning this event were early dissipated. Hamilton of Yale, won the first, with Reed of Columbia, second. Howard of Cornell, took the second heat, and the third was won by a man from one of the smaller colleges. The final heat, which was ridden later on, was taken by Hamilton, in 6m. 48 1-2s. Reed, second. Meanwhile...
...which are trying to teach the youthful mind how to shoot. Those Harvard students in the year 1776 who yearned after a nautical, or rather a piratical life and the salt of the ocean met together in that year and formed what was then called a "Navy Club." and later earned for itself the title of the "Harvard Navy." For some fourteen years it merely existed, but at the beginning of the century it suddenly sprang into prominance and continued in the full glory of its career until 1851, when it was abolished by the then president of Harvard College...
...question of abolishing the somewhat ancient custom of printing the quinquennial catalogue of the university in Latin, which has been agitated for some time, has recently received considerable discussion in the daily papers. The general opinion seems to be that the change is sure to come, sooner or later, and that Harvard should not miss the opportunity of taking the lead among the colleges in introducing this innovation. Some even go so far as to take exceptions to the implication that the catalogue of men who have received degrees from Harvard is printed in Latin, and assert that the language...