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...novel equity suit instituted by certain members of the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania against the senior class to secure the restoration to the Philomathean Society of the bowl fought for in the drawn bowl fight of 1878, at the conclusion of which the bowl was presented to the society, came up before Judges Allison, Peirce and Biddle Friday morning for argument on a demurrer to the bill. The bowl remained in the custody of the society until last December, when it was abstracted by the present defendants after the passage of a resolution giving...
...senior class dinner will take place at Parker's on Monday, the 26th, at seven o'clock P. M. The dinner will be paid for out of the class fund, and it is hoped that all past and present members of '82 will be able to attend. A book has been placed at Bartlett's, in which all who intend to be present at the dinner are requested to sign; those who wish to sit together may do so by bracketing their names...
...this connection we wish to speak again of the advisability of offering second year honors in other departments as well as in mathematics and classics. That men will devote themselves to independent and earnest study has been plainly shown by the number of candidates who present themselves each year for honors in these subjects. There is no apparent reason why men of a pronounced taste for studies other than the classics and mathematics should not be willing to do outside work in the subject of their choice if sufficient inducement were offered to them. We think that the increased amount...
Students at Cambridge University are not allowed to row on the river unless they present certificates of ability to swim from their parents or from the "University Swimming Club...
Under the title of "What is an A. B. Fit For?" the last Sunday edition of the New York Tribune contains an editorial that is so a propos that we present some excerpts. Speaking of the many graduates who are now "in the crisis of their lives," it says: "But after all, is it a crisis? How much do they really begin life when they sally forth with their diploma in hand? In every valedictory oration which will be delivered the same story is told; 'they have girded on their armor and are going into actual battle;' they 'have served...