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Goodwin, accompanied by Robinson, the trainer, leaves for New York this evening, to enter in the amateur championship games, which take place Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

...have considered it unnecessary to make any comment on various articles that have appeared in the Yale papers from time to time since the freshman game, attributing all the noise and uproar in New Haven on the evening of the day on which the game took place to our freshmen. The last issue of the Courant, however, contained an editorial excusing them somewhat. This editorial is as follows : "We think the Lit's strictures in regard to the conduct of the Harvard freshmen, two weeks ago, a trifle uncalled for. If any, our own freshmen should be held responsible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

...following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory of your father is immortal as his glory." The Russian Censorship suppressed this telegram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

...statement which you inclose, that the number of students here has been largely decreased by the admission of young women to the lecture-rooms and laboratories, it is simply a very gross error. A careful examination of our record shows that no diminution in the number of students took place at the admission of young women, but that it was caused by the steady raising of our standard of admission year after year in all our departments, which cut off a considerable number of applicants for admission who had formerly been freely received. I remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1882 | See Source »

Yesterday's Post says of the new college song book : "It will be a long time ere this or any similar work can take the place of the old 'Carmina Collegensia," so familiar to students and alumni of all our leading colleges. A representative college song book cannot be made, as this one seems to have been, by getting certain ambitious tyros to write words and music, which are then put under the caption of their respective colleges. The real college song book is something of long growth, and is not written to order. In the course of years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1882 | See Source »