Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton is a mighty good sort of a place, and they will go in for the thing once they are forced to. We have all been guilty in the past-Princeton perhaps least of all. I don't blame them so much. They found they had an unusual number of available graduates players, and they did what they think we have all been doing in persuading them to return for the foot ball season. The men are stuck there for the year, now, though...
...Month, reviews the foot ball diplomacy since November 5, and the championship series. It also mentions the university treasurer, and is closed by a comparison of the number of students in the university this year with those of the last four years. The usual book reviews are omitted...
...last number of the Nation a correspondent protests against the indifference of our colleges to the study of pedagogy. He declares that class reports show that teaching is universally more popular than any profession excepting the law and medicine, and yet the profession of teaching receives absolutely no attention at our universities. He further says, "The fact that teaching comes second and third on the list, although sufficient to show that some preparation for it should be provided, by no means shows the full importance of the subject. When we call to mind the very large number of college graduates...
...Watson of Dean's" a tale of a Jersey town, and "Literary Sham" an excellent article on the semi literary and non-literary elements at college close the number...
...second part of Mr. Jefferson's autobiography contains chiefly an account of his experience starring in the south in connection with Burton, Burke, Owen, Wallack and other actors of the forties. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay is drawing to a close, the topic for this number being the fall of Richmond. The serials, "Friend Olivia" by Amelia E. Barr, and "The Merry Chanters" by Frank R. Stockton are continued. The other articles are "The New Croton Aqueduct" by Charles Barnard, "Captain Joe" by F. H. Smith, "The Nature and Method of Revelation" by George P. Fisher...