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...another could impress one with a sense of the greatness and dignity of this university, it would be the extraordinary quality of the horses and vehicles in the possession of the college and employed in various services about the buildings and grounds. Occasionally in the pleasant season one catches sight of a melancholy Rozinante painfully dragging a curious cart of delicate years about the grounds, engaged in carrying lumber or removing rubbish of some sort. But it is with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely...
Greek 3 has now finished Book xv. of Homer's Odyssey. There will be an hour examination in this course before December, which may be substituted for parts of the mid-year examination. Two-thirds of the paper will be at sight, one-third will be on what has already been read...
...would refuse to see a curve of two feet in a Yale pitcher's delivery, incline to the opinion that Mann, of Princeton, was first on the diamond with it. Harvard's men have grounds for their belief, from the fact that the Harvard team first had a practical sight of the curve at Princeton in 1874, but as it did not have the effect of winning the game from them then, they regarded it more as a curiosity than anything of importance in the game. The fact was that Mann was so much excited about his new delivery that...
...Modern Literature be added to the enumerated subjects in which honors will be given at graduation off great proficiency. Also on page 24 of the same pamphlet, that the following paragraph be added : In Modern Literature the candidate must be able to read French and German with facility at sight, and must have taken two complete courses in English, two in French, and two in German. These he may choose from among the following : In English, 1, 2, 7 and 8 (two courses and two half courses) ; in French, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (two courses and two half courses...
...Evening Journal can not fail to be of interest as an apt illustration of the insane ideas held by many on the subject of college athletics. The elegant language and rational sentiments contained in this extract are particularly noticeable, and cause the feeling of entertainment which arises at first sight, to deepen into the most heart-felt pity for the unfortunate perpetrators...