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Voted, that it be recommended, that the freshmen who shall be admitted into the University the present year before the end of the summer vacation, be provided with coats of blue gray, being a mixture of deep blue and white wool, as nearly as may be, seven eighths of the blue, and one eighth of the white, or, if that cannot conveniently be obtained, of a dark blue colour, -and with waist-coats and breeches of the same colour...
...Byrn Mawr is nine miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, and is one of the prettiest places of summer resort within easy distance of the Quaker City. Its topography is picturesque. But one of the distinguishing features of Bryn Mawr hereafter is to be its college for the higher education of women, situate in the midst of 32 acres of choice land, and connected with which are the cottages already built and others yet to be built for the pleasant accommodation of the faculty and any overflow of students. This Bryn Mawr College "was founded...
...pleasantest to use, and which endured the wear best. Accordingly, as soon as the frost is out of the ground, five courts of various sorts, of brighten Gravel, Moorland Gravel, Ashes, etc. will be laid down. These can be played upon by the last week in April. During the summer 30 more clay courts made of that material which is found to be best will be laid out upon Holmes and Jarvis Fields in places that will not interfere with the other sports, also a space for two more grass courts will be turfed adjacent to the other eight. This...
...EDITOR OF THE Herald: - Having resigned last summer from the Advisory Committee on Boating, may I be allowed to correct some statements of your correspondent in the article on Rowing at Harvard in the Herald of the 28th, which I can hardly believe represents the feelings of the students in regard to the Advisory Committee on Boating...
Webster's advantages of early education were exceedingly slender, for he worked on his father's farm in summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study...