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...Sullivan made Christmas day more enjoyable to those who were obliged to stay in Cambridge, by giving the following unprecedented bill of fare at Memorial Hall...
Webster afterwards became the pupil of Dr. Samuel Woods, a prominent clergyman of the day, who lived in Boscawen, and prepared boys for college at one dollar a week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...
...turn to those college papers which have evidently "come to stay." Eighteen years ago the first number of the "Harvard Advocate appeared, and, from that time on, it has held a preeminent place among college publications. For seven years it held almost unlimited sway, but in 1873 there appeared a rival, the "Majenta," afterwards called the "Crimson." A friendly rivalry immediately sprang up between these two, and continued until the consolidation of the latter with the college daily in 1883. One of the youngest, and yet probably the best known college publication in existence, the "Harvard Lampoon," was first issued...
...adding: "Whatever may be said as to the wisdom of the captain, the chief fault lies, without doubt, with those men who did not care enough for the athletic honor of their college to forego the little pleasure of which an early return would deprive them. The longer they stay at Yale, the better will they learn that athletic success is the result of individual hard work and self-denial...
FOOT BALL AT BOWDOIN.-At last Rugby foot ball has been fairly inaugurated with an association to back it. The game seems to meet with the warm support is deserves, and has clearly come to stay. The only variety of foot ball worthy the name, it is a wonder that it has not been taken up in earnest before. There is a time between the freezing up of the regulation fall sports and the coming on of winter, which is splendidly adapted to foot ball. -[Orient...