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...grass is new, and the red buds show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 6/16/1886 | See Source »

...harder for victory. We don't ask the whole freshman class to go and sit for three hours on the platform in front of the boat-house; but we do think that a visit of only a few minutes from a few of their classmates will go far to show the crew that the class has not entirely forgotten their existence, simply because there is no passage way to the boat house from the billiard-room in Leavitt & Peirce's. We trust that we shall hear no more of this disgraceful indifference on the part of eighty-nine, but that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1886 | See Source »

...prizes for the past tennis tournament are on exhibition in Bartlett's show window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/12/1886 | See Source »

...came up here, fully seventy-five men accompanied them, and they certainly found it more difficult to leave college than our men will, since they have but six cuts a term and for every absence from a recitation they receive a mark of zero. Why does not eighty-nine show some enthusiasm in this matter and encourage their nine to repeat the success they met with four weeks ago? Let every man in the freshman class who can possibly leave college, go and do his share towards aiding the nine to win the game, and keep the Yale freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1886 | See Source »

...statement is absolutely false. College men will always give a fair paper all due praise, even though it be hard. The paper given yesterday by Mr. Wheeler was not easy; it was hard. But it was so arranged that every man who took the examination was able to show, not the poorest, but the best work of which he was capable. There were no catch questions of any sort whatever. The questions were broad, and represented every part of the work done in the course during the whole of the second half-year, and we do not commend too highly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1886 | See Source »