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Princeton, as was expected, easily defeated Yale at lacrosse by a score of three goals to nothing, on Saturday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/21/1883 | See Source »

The New York Post inveighs against the custom so prevalent in American colleges of paying professors the lowest possible salaries. The tendency to the scholar's life, it says, is not very strong among our young men at best, but nothing better calculated to diminish it could well be hit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1883 | See Source »

In case either nine fails to appear on the grounds on the day and hour named and agreed upon, unless the game has been postponed by mutual consent, the nine so failing to appear shall forfeit the game by a score of nine to nothing. This applies to the sixth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES. | 5/14/1883 | See Source »

President Eliot talked about the new Harvard that is and the Harvard that is to be in a rather interesting way at the recent semi-annual meeting of the Rhode Island Harvard Club at Providence. "It is quite evident," he said, "that whatever has been accomplished by even the highest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT ON UNIVERSITIES. | 5/12/1883 | See Source »

But there is another consideration beyond the mere annoyance. A great many more fellows than are ever employed spend the day in this way, and their number seems to be on the increase, so there is continually a large number of them who wander around with nothing to do. These...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/10/1883 | See Source »