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...interest in lacrosse - the national game of Canada - is steadily increasing. In the city and vicinity there are a number of excellent clubs; and Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and N. Y. U. have very fair teams. As yet the game is comparatively unknown to Americans, but those who desire an afternoon's quiet enjoyment, will find it well worth the trouble to witness a match. The Caughnaroago Indians have lately commenced a tour through the United States, which will probably make the game much more familiar than it now is. A swift-runner of medium build will, with a little practice...
...York daily estimated the attendance at the Yale-Princeton game at 15,000; another at 7,000. The reporters evidently viewed the crowd with different glasses - contents unknown. [Courant...
...throng wildly waving their pocket-books (empty, probably,) and crying out "What'll you bet?" In our list of the crews, it will be noticed that after the name of each one of the girls who row in the crews today, we have put under the "age" unknown. As our reporters could not obtain the age from the girls themselves, we sent to the office in the tower of Memorial, (where it has been placed owing to the little use to which it is now put,) but the sympathetic lady who presided over the higher regions refused to betray what...
...find how strong the impression is outside the college walls that it is impossible for a poor boy to work his way through Harvard. That this impression is false is shown by the fact that students graduate every year who have obtained their education unassisted, and cases are not unknown of such students coming out considerably richer than when they went in. There are two resources which the poor student has-first, the college; second, himself. Probably no institution in the world offers more pecuniary aid to students than Harvard." The writer goes on to enumerate the various ways...
...decided opinions on all the great questions of the day, and always exercises his privilege of the ballot, we may be sure, with due deliberation. If questioned, he can give a very graphic and remarkable history of the Christian religion, with astonishing exactitude as to dates and events, hitherto unknown to the learned world...