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If one chances to see the word "janitor" at the beginning of this article, he will perhaps be tempted to leave it at once without reading. The subject has certainly been often treated of, but of late such new annoyances have arisen that the attention of the authorities is demanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/10/1882 | See Source »

It is a pleasant fact to think of that no freshman class has ever lost the race with Columbia, but it lays a heavier responsibility upon the rowing men of the present class. Our freshmen did not show up remarkably well in the class races, but they will have enjoyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/8/1882 | See Source »

The power of perseverance, or even of pertinacity, in college studies, as in every thing else, must be acknowledged to be of the greatest value. The fact is frequently remarked that students who have given the most brilliant promises of future success in preparatory schools frequently take but a mediocre...

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

"A city college, from its position, is called to a very different kind of work from a similar institution situated in the country; for a large proportion of Columbia's graduates enter directly some one of the many lines of business activity which the metropolis affords them. In so cosmopolitan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDY OF MODERN LANGUAGES. | 6/6/1882 | See Source »

Prof. Thayer of the Andover Theological Seminary has resigned his position, in order to complete his Lexicon of the New Testament Greek which is being printed in Cambridge. He will probably make this his home for the present. This leaves three of the seven chairs in the seminary vacant.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/5/1882 | See Source »