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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fall. For the first time the freshman eleven here will be under the supervision of the university eleven as it is at Yale, and it is hoped that this will give the '87 team an advantage over former freshmen elevens. But their time for practice will necessarily be much shorter than usual, so their work must be correspondingly more earnest and effective...
...studied a year. The man, in such an examination, is generally given a paper that he cannot do justice to in twice the time allotted, and the rapidity with which he can write forms an important factor in the examination. The examinations should be much more numerous and much shorter, although a man should not be limited as to time...
...professors receive high salaries, and lecture regularly or irregularly, as the case may be. Some live at Oxford, some come there only at intervals to deliver a lecture or two, and then go away. Some are appointed for life, some for a longer or shorter period, as it happens. The professor of poetry, now J. C. Sharp, M. A., of Balliol, is appointed every ten years. This professorship has been held among others by Keble and Matthew Arnold. The professorship of fine arts, now vacant, was filled a short time ago by Mr. Ruskin. To the university lectures...
...games will consist of runs at 100 and 220 yards, a quarter, a half, one mile and five miles, one three and seven mile walk, putting the shot, hammer throwing, hurdle race, pole leaping and bicycle races. Brooks of Yale is expected to contest in several of the shorter runs...
...conducted becomes quite an important consideration to every student. Especially is this true during the warm weather of the middle of June. When a number of men, as sometimes happens, are put into a hot, close room to under-go a three-hour examination, or, indeed, even a shorter one, unless every precaution be taken the air necessarily becomes impure and unfit to breathe, greatly to the disadvantage of those at work. And since the result of a year's work may depend on one examination, it is but fair that the student should not be handicapped in his efforts...