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COLUMBIA beat Yale in the annual foot-ball match which took place last week. This, we believe, is the first victory of Columbia over Yale, at foot-ball, in several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

...editorial in a Magenta a few weeks after the formation of the plan of the present Dining Association, an attempt was made to give a reason why so few students - at that time only a hundred - had applied for seats in the Hall. This was attributed to a doubt on the part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

There are two remedies for this state of things, if it is found that I have represented the case rightly: either to raise the price of board fifty cents or perhaps a dollar a week, or to allow any table to order extra dishes. If the first method were adopted, the expense to each member would not be much, - $20 or $40 a year, - while the Steward would have, I suppose, from about $200 to $500 a week more to spend. If the number of those who could not afford this advance is large, the other plan would be best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

SCENE, Pluto's den. - D-N. Well, Mr. X., I sent you six summonses last week; why did n't you come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTENING. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...tell you, Bob, about a week before the College Regatta our men begin to take the interest which should be felt now, and all the time; and until it is felt, Harvard will have to stay in the Convention and be beaten every year. As I said before, the majority of fellows here don't take any interest in athletics, don't care for politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD PLUCK." | 11/12/1875 | See Source »