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...freshman crew will take the special Greek examination to be given to the Exeter men June 15th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/6/1883 | See Source »

...association of amateur athletes, colleges, members of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, bicycle clubs belonging to the League of American Wheelmen, or gentlemen introduced by members of the New York Athletic Club: 100 yards run, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 1-6 mile hurdle race, handicap; half mile run, special; one mile walk, handicap; one mile bicycle, handicap; one mile run, handicap; three mile bicycle, handicap; pole vaulting; running high jump; running broad jump; base-ball throwing, for distance. Admission to the grounds by invitation only. Entries close June 4th, for Harvard men. Entries must be telegraphed today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB. | 6/4/1883 | See Source »

...governor, yet when he retires into private life he still holds it, and, if he be unworthy, will lower its value - something which it is of great importance that the college should guard against. If the university, wishing to recognize the worth and services of anyone, desires to confer special honor upon him, it has every right to do so; but otherwise no compulsion rests upon it, and this is apparently the position taken by the overseers, however unjust it may seem to others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/2/1883 | See Source »

...special recitation in Freshman Chemistry Saturday, Prof. Cooke gave a brief resume of the leading points of which will be required for examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/28/1883 | See Source »

...Present Aspects of College Training." The founders of the early colleges believed strongly in the doctrine that intellectual power is worth more than intellectual acquisitions; that an education of all the mental faculties is better for the scholars themselves and for the community than a narrow training for a special pursuit. Acting on their idea the founders of our colleges began their educational system not with schools for special training but with schools of general culture, and the staff of instructors were not specialists but men fit to teach others the rudiments of higher learning in which they had themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESENT ASPECTS OF COLLEGE TRAINING. | 5/26/1883 | See Source »