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...activity seriously diminished by the privacy which must always characterize a service held in a small room. Have we not often hesitated to attend a vestry service when we would have slipped with great alacrity into a large church, sheltered from observation by its very publicity? Knowing the number of students who are not reached, as the phrase goes, by present religious influences, and the mistrustful feeling which this fact occasions in the minds of some, the Society hopes to remove at once the suspicion and its cause by establishing an institution which shall be a powerful organ of religious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

RULE IV. - First prizes in Rule II., et seq., shall be understood to mean events won; and in no case to be applied to the individual number of first prizes gained in any team competition, viz., as tug of war, which shall count as one prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...indeed, seem that, according to this, a man might hold a court for seven years while he goes through College and the Law School; and that, since the number of courts is limited, some men would be unable to get any court at all, or, at any rate, have to put up with an exceedingly poor one. This does at first appear a little hard on new-comers, but it would be little different from the system pursued in the matter of College rooms. And in fact, does it not seem that when a student who has occupied a room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS COURTS. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

Roundsman O'Phlynn of the 8th Precinct was the first to notice the destruction. About 2 A.M. he saw a number of figures steal stealthily along the west side of Acropolis Avenue and turn into Marathon Street. On returning from the other end of his beat and reaching Marathon Street, corner of Omicron, he perceived, to his surprise, that nearly all the lamps in the street were extinguished, and on his stopping for a moment to view the scene he heard a crash close behind him, and saw the only remaining lamp on Marathon Street - the one in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRUE STORY OF THE MUTILATION OF THE HERMAE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...destruction of the lamps was early discovered in other parts of the city by policemen and members of the legislature returning to their homes. A number of persons have been arrested on suspicion, among whom are a reporter of the ??? Mr. John F. Thucydides, and others. Little doubt, however, is entertained that the offenders are students of ??? College. The ringleader is supposed to be the notorious William G. Alcibiades, a recent graduate of the college, who was the Democratic candidate for Archon in the 4th Ward at the fall election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRUE STORY OF THE MUTILATION OF THE HERMAE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »