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...registration of Freshmen takes place on Monday, and their recitations begin on the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...first place, it is estimated that at the present time there are at least two hundred papers and magazines in this country devoted to college interests and conducted by college students. As each of these papers has a board of from six to ten editors, they alone form quite a large body. The average circulation is about five hundred copies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE JOURNALISM. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...purposes which the college paper accomplishes in American college life are numerous and important. It is, in the first place, a mirror of undergraduate sentiment, and is either scholarly or vulgar, frivolous or dignified, as are the students who edit and publish it. A father, therefore, debating where to educate his son, would get a clearer idea of the type of moral and intellectual character which a college forms in her students from a year's file of their fortnightly paper, than from her annual catalogue or the private letters of her professors. To the college officers, also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE JOURNALISM. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...understand from the officers of the H. A. A. that the regular fall meeting will take place as usual, at the end of next month or at the beginning of November. If Jarvis or Holmes Field are inaccessible, Beacon Park can be used for the sports. - EDS. CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

None but the Harvard scratch-races were ever known to take place on time. It is hardly surprising then that the crews in this regatta were not started until an hour after the appointed time. At five minutes past twelve the word was given, but the Yale men seemed to have perceived by intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACE. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »