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Cornell has just had its annual gymnasium sports. From the Cornell Sun we learn that these sports were unusually successful. From the same source we learn that many features of the meeting were, to say the least, unique. In the first place, the athletes of Cornell are not contented with winning mere empty honors, or even with receiving the customary medals for proficiency in their chosen specialties,-as may be seen from a glance at the prize list, on which appear clocks, statuary, silk umbrellas, easy chairs, and books without number. This method of rewarding athletic excellence...
...attracted by the portion devoted to the description of the proposed alterations in Gore Hall. After the long years during which our students have been compelled to content themselves with the antiquated reading-room accommodations afforded by our library, it is pleasant, to say the least, to learn that any improvement has even been thought of by the authorities. The suggestion of providing suitable accommodations for those students who are not resident at the university is a valuable one. Such provision for "day students," would, in effect, be equivalent to founding a system of small scholarships; since many...
...been so often placed side by side, that the comparison might be the more marked by the just opposition. A mingled feeling of joy and sadness, joy because "misery loves company," and sadness because we pity anyone as badly off as we are,- now comes upon us as we learn the distance which separates Cambridge from New Haven, has done much to lend enchantment to the stories of Yale enthusiasm. Lacrosse, which has had a very successful, although short career at Yale, has been obliged to suspend active participation in college sports because of pecuniary embarrassment, and the name...
...Amherst student who has spent two hours in preparing a lesson, but has failed to learn it in that time, can, by reporting the fact, be excused from reciting...
...signed the book at Bartlett's. All names must be put down in the book to-day, or given to some member of the committee. As the dinner will undoubtedly be a very enjoyable affair, and as the reputation of the club is at stake, we should regret to learn that the number had not been greatly increased before this evening...