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...present year is the Jubilee year of the Oxford and Cambridge Match, the first Inter-University cricket match having taken place at Lord...
...Athletic Association will not enter the intercollegiate contests this year. The regular spring contest will take place...
...other Overseers were elected by the Legislature. Any one who will look over the list of Overseers previous to 1866 will find some names which he would never associate with an institution of learning, - names of men whose opinions as to whether Logic should be substituted in the place of some of the Freshman Mathematics would be of far less value than their surmises as to how this or that caucus would probably vote. We may be thankful that a more rational plan has been adopted, and that the governors of the College are chosen by better qualified electors than...
...Buoy. You have lived in Memphis, you have been to Chicago, and you once spent a week at the United States Hotel in Boston. You, of course, could see that in the society into which you had been received in New England Buoy would be quite out of place. But Neophogen is not Boston. At Neophogen Buoy was the best obtainable, and a useful man to know - I do not think I need say any more on the score of acquaintances. Only keep this simple rule in mind: if you desire to be a man of fashion, do not neglect...
...entree into society as a little reputation as a scribbler. The Pen is read everywhere, and anything you write will have a large and appreciative audience. Do not, however, let them publish the addresses you deliver before the literary societies. They may be well enough in their place, but entre nous, they smack a little of the Occident. Besides, it is well not to identify one's self with one's companions in all respects...