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The recent dinner of the Yale alumni in Boston was significant from many of the ideas expressed by President Porter relative to the present position of Yale in religion, and in the controversy between the "old learning" and the new. The remarks were evidently made with great care, and acknowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1886 | See Source »

Under this title, a recent magazine article gives an account of a visit to that beautiful suburb of London, Harrow, and also of its famous preparatory school. Harrow and Eton are the two great English preparatory schools, and are characterized, only to a lesser extent, by the same rivalry and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrow-on-the-Hill. | 1/27/1886 | See Source »

The "forms" consist of a plank, placed horizontally, with the hard side up, to sit upon, with another plank higher up to serve as a writing desk. Upon a victim attempting to assume an upright position, this latter plank comes into play upon the small of the back, after the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Luxury. | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

On looking through a German illustrated paper, published in one of the smaller towns of Southern Germany, I was amused to find a picture, apparently taken from the Police Gazette, showing the last home run between the Chicagos and New York. In explanation of this illustration, I found the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A German Conception of Base-Ball. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

FRESHMAN NINE. T. Woodbury will fill the position of captain pro. tem. during my absence.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »