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...Bartlett wishes the students to understand that he cannot post up ball game scores unless they stop crowding the walk in front of his store, as complaint has been made. Scores are posted as soon as received; if not in view there is no news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/11/1882 | See Source »

...tutoring those in classes below him, $2 per hour; while a graduate tutor usually gets $3 per hour. These prices vary, of course; but this is the average. Many a man has entirely paid his way through Harvard by tutoring, and many graduates support themselves there during their post-graduate studies in the same way. Tutoring is not confined to lazy or dull men. Sometimes a smart scholar, wishing to devote all his time to one branch of study, and being compelled to pass examinations in other branches, will tutor up in the latter rather than spend the time necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLOBE ON THE HARVARD STUDENT. | 5/10/1882 | See Source »

...hung all the same. The name of the tribe to which the suspended Harvard students belong is not given. - [Texas Siftings.] This item is hardly correct. They were Trinity students. But Siftings can keep the item in type. It's likely to be needed at almost any time. - [Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...more enterprising metropolitan journals; and if the college man does not receive recognition directly in this way the increasing deference shown by the abler papers to the ways of thought and the subjects of interest to students and graduates, is very observable. The New York Times and the Evening Post and the Boston Advertiser are familiar examples of this latter tendency. The regular weekly "College Chronicle" of the New York World is a department of that paper well known and much read by college men, though conducted, one must acknowledge at times, with more industry than true journalistic insight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE WORLD. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...festive penny-a-liner of the Post, who delights in expatiating on the "bumptiousness" of college students, must lament over the present quiet and lamb-like behavior universally displayed by collegians. We pity the poor man and vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1882 | See Source »