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...number of matriculations at Cambridge this year was 659, an increase of sixteen over last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...Amherst Gymnasium exhibition takes place on Saturday, and a large number of entries have been made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...Rowing Club could be installed as coach to these new men, nothing would be wanting to insure their education in the best school; but this is undoubtedly impracticable, and English works on rowing must be resorted to. The men might be forced to select a coach from their own number, but this would be much better than to run the risk of having their stroke ruined by a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...make four," or, "Please explain the passage on page 63, fifth line from the top." He is entirely regardless of the feelings either of his classmates or of the instructor, whom he interrupts without compunction. One would think that the number of times his advances have been but coldly received would have taught him to be wise, but he minds not repulse, - Merses profundo, pulchrior evenit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE RECITATION-ROOM. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...opinion of the Editors of the Advocate when one society and a certain number of non-society men vote several times for the same men, the inference is irresistible that there was a coalition. Apply this method of reasoning. In the case of each of these offices, about the possession of which there has been so much dispute, but two candidates were balloted for: one was a Pudding man, the other was not. Was it, then, necessary for a person who belonged to a division of the class outside the Pudding to vote for a Pudding candidate when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR CLASS ELECTIONS. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »