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Harper's Weekly has a brief article on the foot-ball question. In speaking of the Yale-Princeton game, it says: "The annual encounter of the elevens of these two colleges seems to be looked to as affording "the pace" at which college foot-ball shall be carried on. Their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/18/1886 | See Source »

Perhaps less interesting even than the battles of editors is their love-making. Just as every paper has its bitter foes, so, too, every paper has its dear friends. With the former all is bad; with the latter all is good. Here is a paper that is "little, but oh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Our Exchanges." | 1/18/1886 | See Source »

Nothing, perhaps, is more natural than for a student newly thrown into relations with, apparently, his superiors, to adopt their customs and their language. The transition from the refined conversation of home life or the puerilities of school life is strangely sudden; they are dropped or intensified almost immediately - and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Slang. | 1/16/1886 | See Source »

Perhaps nothing is so frequently remarked upon by the visitor at our university, and especially by students from other colleges, than the great number of note-books seen in the hands and on the shelves of undergraduates. They are not the small, insignificant scribbling books used to jot down the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Value of Good Notes. | 1/14/1886 | See Source »

Note-taking like every other great system beneficial to humanity gives rise to many evils. The note, however, is one of these and deserves little regard on the face of the earth. Another and perhaps the crying evil of the system is the "syllabi" published in pamphlet form by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Value of Good Notes. | 1/14/1886 | See Source »