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...studies and that he has certain absolute qualifications for the degree he applies for. That Princeton should make this new departure is rather a surprise, but now that she has concentrated the attention of the American college world upon herself we do not doubt that she will make strenuous efforts to show up the new plan in its best aspect...
Cambridge was modeled on the form of Oxford as that was on Paris. Cambridge was always more of a Protestant university than Oxford. During the days of the Reformation the students were strenuous in their defense of Queen Elizabeth. At the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Emmanuel College, which occurred a few years ago a certain professor showed a ring given by Elizabeth to one of his ancestors who had been a professor at Emmanuel, in appreciation of the old Englishman's devotion to the cause of Protestantism. [Applause.] Although Cambridge always keeps its doors open...
...year is announced, and under its direction as formed, we have everything to hope for the welfare of our athletics. The re-establishment of foot-ball among the college sports, in justice to the new style of play shown by the other colleges last year, and the strenuous efforts to better the facilities of the gymnasium, are some of the more important works of the last committee. However futile the latter may be for the present, there is plenty of work for the committee, both in this direction and keeping up the high standard of the former. Visiting teams...
...Strenuous efforts are being made at Yale to raise more money than heretofore for the support of the Track Athletic Association...
...nine is far from satisfactory; but they have shown in the first game with Yale, what they can do under the influence of the ambitious aspirations caused by the presence and cheering of so many of their classmates, and there is little reason to doubt that they will make strenuous efforts to defeat the wearers of the blue in this coming game. Should eighty-nine win this second game, they will bring to Harvard an honor which she has not yet attained in the memory of undergraduates - that of defeating the Yale freshmen in both games. We trust that...