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...following description of three games of foot-ball, with their various peculiarities, will be of interest...
...promises to be continued in the future. Yale has now taken up the project and proposes to play Trinity, but the lateness of the season will probably prohibit any further negotiations this fall. Last spring we advocated the establishment of an intercollegiate tennis association, which should arrange matches between various colleges. Communications were sent to several colleges, but so many negative answers were received that it seemed that the time had not yet come, and the project was necessarily abandoned. We take this opportunity, when the enthusiasm of the game is still fresh, and when several months' space...
...urge them to come to a settlement with the Cornell men according to the latter's terms. The seniors and juniors, wishing to be identified in some way with the trouble, concluded to interfere with this meeting, and accordingly proceeded to the meeting armed with tin horns and various other noisy instruments and disturbed the peace of the deliberating professors and freshmen with an incessant hulla-ballo. The professors sallied forth and captured a few of the serenaders. The offense was thought a sufficient cause for suspension, and two of the unfortunate upper classmen were invited to take a vacation...
...Accessions to the Libraries. 3. A Bibliography of Fossil Insects. 4. Catalogue of the Lee MSS. 5. Maps in Petermann's Mittheilungen. 6. List of American Geological Writers, and, 7, University Notes. The records of the corporation and overseers published extend from April 10 to October 28. Besides the various votes accepting resignations and making appointments to offices of instruction, the following is a synopsis of the more important measures adopted...
...also to scientific study, and the brilliancy of his wit and the tender glow of his poetic genius have but enhanced the value of his professional teaching. The Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill. It is no less full of delight and instruction for the general reader than of historic value to the professional student. It is pleasant to know that Dr. Holmes resigns only that he may devote himself...