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...occasional rush and a few stormy class-meetings. The apathy shown by the students is due largely to the fact that nearly the whole of the campus has been taken up by the new law School building, and the sons of Erin engaged thereon, and there being no place to congregate, the students, upon concluding their duties, immediately set out for home, except a few more sociably inclined, who gather in the offices of the Spectator and the Acta, where affairs collegiate are discussed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA. | 4/13/1882 | See Source »

...examinations in Professor Torrey's graduate courses in history will take place as follows: - b., Wednesday, June 14, 10 A. M., in U. 20; c., Tuesday, June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/4/1882 | See Source »

...being connected with such a university as Harvard, and the hope of future promotion, may cause him to refuse a position at some other institution where he is to get a larger salary. But when a man who is getting $2500 a year here is offered $5000 some place else, knowing that he can never get that amount here, he feels that he owes a duty to himself, and that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," to use an old saw. In addition to this he knows that the college is cramped for funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1882 | See Source »

...spring meeting of the Athletic Club of the Institute of Technology took place Saturday afternoon in their gymnasium. The exhibition opened with the Standing High Jump; won by W. T. Ripley by a jump of 4 feet 8 1/2 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ATHLETIC MEETING. | 4/3/1882 | See Source »

...great Oxford-Cambridge race takes place today on the Thames. Neither crew is thought to be up to the usual standard, and the betting is even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/1/1882 | See Source »