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...asserted that one of the Amherst students, while making a call at Smith College, told the young ladies that a dance was soon to take place in Amherst, and, if they would find some way to get over there the students would take them to the dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...learn that he was of a "singularly amiable and compliant disposition," so much so that his friends would occasionally persuade him to take their water-pails and go down two flights of stairs to the college pump for their water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAUNCEY WRIGHT AT HARVARD. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...satisfaction and honor if they would subscribe their share for the maintenance of the crew. While they do not wish to compare themselves YET with the Juniors (and I agree with X' 81 that any attempt to do so would be ridiculous in the extreme), they might at least take example from the Sophomore subscription, and emulate them in this respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...only means we had for raising money for our crew besides the subscription-list, namely, the boat-club theatricals, have been taken from us, and it now behooves us to find something to take their place, which the Faculty will not be apt to object to. Why can we not have such a subscription ball as Columbia is to have to aid her crew? There are men among the undergraduates who, assisted by graduates in Boston, could certainly make such a ball a grand success, financially and socially. We commend this idea to their attention. Furthermore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

...down for the afternoon. Last year great dissatisfaction with this practice was expressed by the students, who complained that the afternoon was a time decidedly unfavorable for such severe work as a three-hour examination. We hope that some way may be found whereby all the examinations may take place in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1878 | See Source »