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...that they always create, in addition to a growing spirit of lawlessness and rowdyism on their part, furnishes sufficient reason for excluding them entirely from the college grounds. Next spring, perhaps, when we have an enclosed field for athletics, this nuisance will be done away with, but for the present some measures should be taken to prevent its continuance. If the Cambridge police were notified they would undoubtedly stop the nuisance...
...shown by the greatly increased interest in rowing in both colleges and by the enormous crowd which yearly assembles at New London. When Amherst or Dartmouth can produce nines which have a respectable chance of winning the pennant their place in the league should be secure; but at present they only affect the race for the championship by winning now and then, through some lucky chance, a game from nines whose superiority is easily proved. Williams, we hear, desires a place in the league; Trinity will come next, and before long Columbia will heave in sight to repeat her foot...
...presentation of a petition with no address is in itself sufficient recommendation for no notice. But this unanimous expression of the students' desire for one more play-day to be added to their Thanksgiving recess, was in no wise slighted and will be considered and acted upon in due time. These few facts might well be stated here. In the first place, the appointment of vacations, their lengthening and shortening, is made by the corporation; secondly, the vacations, which have hitherto been satisfactory, are appointed in the statutes, and lastly, the college faculty is utterly powerless in the matter...
Challenges have been forwarded to England that may lead to aquatic events of interest next season. Mr. Peter Duryea offers to back a sculler (at present unnamed) against any other rower in the world, in a three or five mile race, for from $5000 to $10,000 a side. He will also match a pair of rowers against any other two scullers for a like amount...
...superintendent of the census is attempting to prepare a compendium of the census of 1880, to present to Congress during the coming session...