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...Sixteen men at Exeter intend to enter Yale next year. Among them are some of Exeter's best athletes. - Yale News...
...figure, the price charged by undergraduates for tutoring ranging from one to two dollars and a half, an hour - Harvard certainly affords the best of opportunities to a student who is well off in brain, but poor in the riches of this world. And fully three-quarters of its sixteen hundred students are made up of men no richer than the average student at our own university...
...their mental powers. Mens sana in corpore sano, should be Harvard's second motto. With its splendid Hemenway gymnasium, fitted out with everything in the way of athletic apparatus that human ingenuity has devised, its ball fields and running tracks, it is no wonder that Harvard, drawing from its sixteen hundred students, all of whom are anxious to represent their college in athletic contests, should be able to put forward a base-ball nine that wins every game it plays, a football team that is only beaten by Yale, and a boat crew that leaves even Yale in its wake...
...hard feeling, and we want the season to open next fall with everything possible in our favor. I have tried the scheme of asking anyone who has ever played on the University team and who is now connected with the University to vote. By this means we obtained 16 (sixteen) names. To obtain a majority, a man must obtain nine votes. Several men have not voted. Three have refused to vote on the score that they are not up in the game and men; and the result is that no one has attained the necessary majority...
...Sixteen silk hats were observed on the sidewalk in front of Sawin's express office yesterday afternoon; also about seventy-five trunks...