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...Unitarians. They hold that the aim of their organization is rather to foster sectarianism, than by a working union between all Christians in college, to spread unfeigned religious thought. They think that by snubbing some of their "Brethren," they will set before the rest of the world a fair pattern of the kindliness and brotherly love preached by Christ. This movement of exclusion, a bit of mediaeval intolerance must appear strange here in the most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/26/1886 | See Source »

...year that Harvard celebrated her two hundredth anniversary - will recall with a smile the fanciful summer garment of the students then in vogue, called the College Toga. For at least two seasons it was in high fashion with the undergraduates. It was made of gingham, of a color and pattern to suit the taste of the wearer. It was a loose-fitting garment reaching to the knees, was gathered at the neck, and also at the waist, behind. It had a turned-over collar, a small cape rounded in front, and a belt of the material of the dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Toga. | 3/22/1886 | See Source »

...gymnasium at the University of Pennsylvania has been formally thrown open. The general plan of the building is similar to the one at Harvard, and the apparatus is of the latest and most approved pattern. The gymnasium is hardly large enough for the growing needs of the University, but all the appointments are perfect. December 3rd, Dr. J. Williams While lectured to the students on the uses of the several appliances, and the best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/4/1886 | See Source »

...first class is made up of a small minority of the body of alumni, and possibly a professor or two. The second class is the strongest, and if predictions are in order, it is quite safe to say that Yale's next president will be a man of their pattern, though it is likely they will have to yield in their requirement that he must not be a clergyman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Presidency. | 12/5/1885 | See Source »

...players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/27/1885 | See Source »

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