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Chalfant and Sawyer have both bad colds, and have stopped rowing with the 'Varsity for the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/26/1882 | See Source »

...Cornell Era says: "The freshmen will send a crew away the following summer, if present indications can be relied upon. A number of men are already in hard training in the gymnasium, an effort has been made and successfully, to enlist the interest of upper class-men, and everything promises well for the undertaking." Cornell's last exploit with a university crew seems to have been enough to last her several years, and now the attention of the college is centred on the freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/26/1882 | See Source »

...copyrighted books published in the United States since 1870. It now has over 400,000 volumes and 150,000 pamphlets, and innumerable maps, papers, and engravings. In all probability, the appropriation of $1,500,000 for a building, postponed from the last Congress, will be enacted by the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1882 | See Source »

Pach's list of photographs for the senior class numbers 184 present members, 56 past members, 35 extra pictures, 33 athletes and athletic teams, the Mott Haven team, 40 groups, 69 large views, 12 snow views, and 60 cabinet views of buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/24/1882 | See Source »

...funny-looking creature with a "mortar-box," I believe it's called, walking the street. At first I thought it was a Chinaman, or belonged to the Humpty Dumpty Troupe, but my cousin said that he was connected with the Tuft's Soda Fountain Manufacturing Company. At present I am very much occupied, for I am taking painting and drawing lessons, have a dancing master, take piano and singing lessons, go to riding and swimming schools, have a lady teacher for French and German, and a love of a gentleman teacher in Italian and Spanish, and learning to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »