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...Columbia was again victorious with seven events, Princeton second with five events.* The list...
...lady on whom I next called - her age I judge to be about twenty-seven - spoke with feeling, a good deal of feeling, on the subject. She said, "Any young lady who married before she was thirty committed an irreparable error." This saddened me for a time [doubtful, state how long], for had my mother entertained the same views on the subject I should yet be in knicker-bockers [illogical...
...show that he can undertake the extra work with safety. The regulation affecting failure in the Freshman year is consequently modified, as well. Instead of requiring an average of 40 per cent in the Freshman year, a man will not be dropped in future, unless he fails in seven hours of his work; and he is given an opportunity to rejoin his class whenever, by taking extra work, he has reduced the deficiency below seven hours; he naturally still has to clear all conditions before receiving his degree...
...given, or love for the subject. Is our literature, then, so deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward for faithful work in seven English courses. It is but a vague term, at best; and certainly the addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some...
...writer of the letter to the Advocate makes a miscalculation of three weeks and a half in the exact time during which a training table need be kept for the Freshman race, as it was seven weeks and a half from the class races to the Columbia race. It is not impossible, too, that a training table might be dispensed with for a part of the time before the class races if there were to be no outside race; but, even if it were not, the expense beyond the class race for keeping up the crew would be $300 while...