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...audience of 200 paying spectators had hardly assembled on Holmes, yesterday afternoon, when a smart shower caused a general stampede for shelter. As soon as the rain had stopped, the two nines, followed by the spectators, proceeded to Jarvis, where Captain Winslow had determined to play, owing to the slippery condition of the grass upon Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base Ball. | 4/29/1885 | See Source »

Under the old arrangement it was thought rather smart to get ahead of the faculty, and there was often much bitterness manifested. Under the jury system there is little chance for such a feeling to display itself, and the students are more willing to submit to the judgment of the jury than they formerly were to bow to the will of the faculty, as they no longer feel that they are being condemned by unfriendly, or at least unsym pathetic persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jury System at Bowdoin. | 4/11/1885 | See Source »

What wonder that, beneath the smart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RONDEAU - BENEATH HER SHAWL. | 6/7/1883 | See Source »

...variety" crew is what a smart compositor set up for "'Varsity" crew in an exchange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/18/1883 | See Source »

...Springfield Republican passes bitter judgment upon Life, which it says was started by "graduates of the Harvard Lampoon." "The Lampoon was smart, for college boys, but Life is not smart at all, and has no good reason for being," is its stern decree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/17/1883 | See Source »

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