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...doubt many of the students, especially members of the entering class wondered by what right the faculty sent orders to various boarding and lodging house keepers in town Monday night forbidding the holding of punches and other convivial parties. As we do not understand that boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/8/1885 | See Source »

...Lowell added much to the pleasure of the occasion. The procession formed in front of old Massachusetts and, headed by the chief marshal, Henry S. Russell, marched to the hall. Mr. Choate was the President of the dinner and sat in the middle of the raised platform. At his right sat President Eliot and James Russell Lowell, and at his left, Gov. Robinson and Vice-President Hendrick. The Phi Beta Kappa orator of the morrow, Hon. William H. Rawle, occupied a prominent seat, and notables were as numerous as is usual on such occasions. Well it was that the intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT, 1885. | 10/2/1885 | See Source »

...course of an editorial on the recent troubles at Princeton the Prencetonian says: "It is both right and natural that students should co-operate with the faculty in the suppression of wrong practices; but it could not be expected they should feel like supporting a decimating policy. Nevertheless even so generous a feeling as sympathy should not be allowed to warp opinion, and while we all feel sympathy for those who have suffered for the errors into which customs already existing have led them, we should not allow anything to supplant our honest judgment on the question of hazing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/2/1885 | See Source »

...seats to be occupied by juniors at prayers will be in pews 54-39 on the floor on the right going in. Seats will be assigned to-morrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/1/1885 | See Source »

...GAME.Harvard went first to the bat and scored two runs, on a double by Winslow, a single by Nichols, and an error by Sheppard. Yale brought a man over the plate by a base on balls and a long drive to right field for three bases by Marsh. This closed Yale's score until the ninth inning, when the second and final run was made. Harvard failed to add to her score until the fifth inning, when singles by Beaman, Winslow, Nichols and Edgerly, and two attempted put-outs and a trio of errors resulted in seven runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RECORD BROKEN. | 10/1/1885 | See Source »