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...Seventy-nine's race with Wesleyan had to be given up on account of the sickness of a number of the Wesleyan crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

...following table from Scribner's shows the number of hours per week devoted to the different studies by eleven leading colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

AMONG the advantages which universities have is the one which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

...want subscribers, - a thousand, - if that number will come. Our club rates may be learned by glancing at the advertisement which appears on the outside page: Read and work." - Niagara Index...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

...chum, "necessitates the placing of a new lock on our door. I think it only fair that you should pay half. And while you are here, perhaps you would like to subscribe to the Matworthy boat-club." You see my chum's a treasurer, and has an eye to number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'T WAS MIDNIGHT. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »