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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entirely successful, and there are at present a number of men who play tennis and do not belong to the club. Whether or not they will ultimately all become members is doubtful. The scheme proposed last fall for the assignment of courts was not entirely satisfactory, and some again resent the claims of the club on all the tennis grounds. By reason of the popularity of the game, almost all the available courts have been occupied, and it will soon be necessary to decide upon some rules for the occupancy of the grounds; and these rules must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1882 | See Source »

...very unsatisfactory and reflect no credit on the authorities. Of course there is the refuge of the college hospital, but that is not likely to be taken advantage of by any one who can avoid it, for many reasons. The reflections on our goodies contained in the article, we resent with proper indignation, as ignorant slanders. Their comeliness, cleanliness and industry is admired and applauded by all of us, especially by our janitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1882 | See Source »

...they do not have a chronic appearance of being forced out at the imminent risk of the sanity of their originators. But even the Lampoon sometimes dribbles. But as for the Advocate and Crimson, (it will do no harm to speak plainly, for I am sure they both will resent no well-meant criticism) for the last three months almost everything that has appeared in their columns, excepting their editorials (generally excellently written) and their venerable items, has been sheer nonsense; and nonsense that is not in the least amusing or laughable either, but nonsense of the most painful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/21/1882 | See Source »

Here the meeting was disturbed by a violent dispute between Doctor B-rt-l and Joseph C-k about the economy of protoplasm. Joseph proposed an interlude in the yard, where, being a large man, he would agree to wipe out B-rt-l- The Club were disposed to resent this speech; but a very learned man, H-xley by name, interposed, saying that the discussion would amuse Joseph and keep him out of mischief, and that if B-rt-l could stand it the rest of them could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...Princeton's expense. We are constantly obliged to quarrel with the taste and judgment of the Acta; nevertheless, we read and are amused, and welcome it gladly from week to week. . . . The Niagara Index is distressed at the condition of affairs in Oberlin, and the Review is disposed to resent the insults of its cotemporary, - very properly, as we think. But the Index can at least claim to be amusing, and what more can be said of the best of us all? . . . The Student and the Athenoeum pursue their straight-forward ways, and represent public opinion at Amherst and Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

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