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Harvard, '86, vs. Brown, '86.The freshmen defeated the Brown freshmen at Providence on Saturday by a score of 15 to 7. The batting of Harvard was very heavy, while they made but three fielding errors. Magill injured a finger while practising before the game, and was obliged to give place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/14/1883 | See Source »

The old complaint about the condition of the students in the Russian universities is today as well founded as ever. One or two universities absorb the few conspicuous men of science there are; the other universities are content with luminaries of the second rank; the intermediate schools feed on half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RUSSIAN STUDENT. | 5/2/1883 | See Source »

The spirit of the Yale press just before the Thanksgiving game was typical. We do not refer to the Yale News, which is of a decidedly lower tone than the sentiment of the college would authorize. We have nothing to say to its wretched personalities, which would imply that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/14/1882 | See Source »

DEAR FACULTY : I write to you to ask you if you wouldn't make the proctor in my entry behave himself. In the first place, when he passes me on the stairs, he invariably winks at me, a thing which I don't even allow one of the instructors to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STANDS IT NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF?" | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

We reprint from the N. Y. Times an interesting and somewhat curious article on our Memorial Hall and its management - interesting as showing the opinions held by outsiders on the matter, and curious for the various misconceptions and exaggeration it contains. De gustibus non disputandum is a motto eminently applicable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1882 | See Source »

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