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...dinner, but these friends must always be ladies, an exception being made in the case of father or guardian. There is a certain amount of discipline maintained. Three times a day the ladies have to enter their names on the marking-roll. The gates are closed at dusk in summer, and at six o'clock in winter. Any application for leave of absence must be supported by medical certificates. There is a strict strict entrance examination in necessary and optional subjects, except for those who have passed such difficult examinations as the matriculation examination of the University of London...
Johnny: - "Why, the Clipper says that last summer the Harvard crew gave the Yale men their wash." - [Chaff...
...indeed, scarcely could make, any further provision. If at any time more cases of contagious sickness should occur than the hospital could hold, the college would be immediately closed. As a fact, there has never been any dangerous epidemic here during the college year. Seventy years ago, during the summer, an epidemic of typhoidal dysentery broke out among those students who were still occupying the dormitories, and several fatal cases occurred. Of recent years, however, there have never been more than two students in the hospital at the same time, and this freedom from a spread of disease is doubtless...
...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...
...campus, with the possible exception of the new Physical Laboratory. It is finely located on the hill, commanding a view of the town and lake; indeed, from the upper stories of Sage, the eye can take in the country for miles up and down the valley. In the summer, when the hillsides are covered with verdure, and the sun, just dropping behind the western hill, lights up the valley with its farewell glories, the poetic part of the co-ed nature receives a stimulus which forms a powerful antidote to the prosaic effect of Calculus and Psychology...