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...loose both the race with Yale and the base-ball championship seemed very hard, especially as we left college feeling reasonable sure of the latter. Our rivals at Yale have received a success such as they seldom achieve, and of which they are deservedly proud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 8/25/1884 | See Source »

...modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW METHOD. | 6/10/1884 | See Source »

...seldom that one can compare any of the small or even moderate sized colleges with the larger universities, and it is even more rare to find in such institutions some qualities which their larger rivals lack. Still, that a small college possesses some advantages that great universities have not, nor from present appearances ever will have, cannot be doubted by the skeptical. One of the most important of these advantages and one that will seriously influence hereafter many who wish a college education in its full sense is the good fellowship in the various classes. If as may occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE CLIQUES. | 6/7/1884 | See Source »

...class races take place on the Charles River course. For months the four crews have been faithfully training for this event, and for months the college has watched with increasing interest the improvements which have taken place in the different crews. It is probably safe to say that seldom, in any class race, have the four crews been in better condition than they are at present. This is especially true of the three upper classes, who, from their longer experience in rowing, have a decided advantage over the freshman crew, which has, moreover, been weakened recently by the loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/10/1884 | See Source »

Three home runs in a single game is a record that has seldom been surpassed on Jarvis Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/8/1884 | See Source »

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