About College ' I 'HE Columbiad is out. Don't fail to buy one. LAST Monday the 'B6 'Varsity Crew had their pictures taken at Pach's. MR. L. WARREN, 'BB, has left college for the present term, and is now traveling in Europe. BISHOP HENRY C. POTTER has been elected a trustee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, the late Bishop Horatio Potter. THE Glee Club will be accompanied on its tours by Messrs. Mapes and Plum, whose banjo playing is a great addition to the other qualities of the club. SEVERAL very favorable communications, suggesting Columbia as a fourth member to the proposed Intercollegiate Baseball League have appeared lately in the Yale News. WE hear that E. D. Lange, the celebrated walker, is in the Medical School, and that the Athletic Association will try to induce him to walk for us this spring. THE annual chapel concert for the benefit of the Sophomore…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1887-03-02 →

About College "VI THEN will the benches be placed upon the campus ? THE 'B9 Columbiad had an almost unprecedented sale. DR. A. J. W. JACKSON, was around college for a short time last week. IT is said that Mr. Henry George will be one of the judges of the joint debate. THE lunch-room petition has been tranferred to the library. Be sure to sign it. THE last edition of Harper's Weekly devoted an entire page to certain scenes from " Captain Kidd." THERE are over 85,000 books in the library. Between five and six thousand have been added since last May. - THE Class of 'B9, School of Mines, will give an entertainment for the benefit of the debt incurred during the Freshman year. WE should like to state for the last time that no more spring poems will be received. Our waste-basket needs rest. A NUMBER of '9O men are willing to bet any reasonable amount that the Sophomore crew will win the…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1888-04-26 →

About College PROFESSOR DRISLER does not smoke. PALMER, '9l, and Campbell, '9l, have both gone South. SINCE the recent attack on smoking, Stevie has led a very busy life. WILL the public never tire of Columbia's debts and entertainments ? MATCHING pennies still keeps its fascination for the Sophomores. Now is the time to subscribe for Volume XXIV. Don't be backward. THERE have been more changes in the management of the cloak-room. WE hear that President Barnard drives out occasionally, and is in very fair health. THE class of '9O, both Arts and Mines will hold its annual dinner at Mazzetti's on the 15th inst. IN the lunch-room. —Waiter: " One apple dumpling—make it two ! " Why should we doubt miracles ! THE Dramatic Club is arranging an entertainment to take place the last of April, for the benefit of the Boat Club. THE Seniors made about four hundred dollars from their…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1889-03-07 →

About College Glee and Banjo Club concert will be held March 6th, in Harlem. THK Columbian will probably be issued about the middle of April We learn that the printer has at last commenced work. THE Peithologian Literary Society has elected H. M. Powell and Charles Hood as its representatives at the annual joint debate. T HE Philolexian Society had a mock installation of President Low, instead of the usual debate, at their last meeting. The affair was rather farcical. NINETY-ONE has decided to have a dinner as soon as possible, although the committee in charge reported that it was inadvisable to give one this year. THE SPECTATOR Board of the ensuing year will consist of Victor Mapes, '9l A. ; C. F. Bishop, '9l A. ; G. C. Southard, 91 M. ; T. L. Chrystie, '92 A. ; W. B. Thompson, '93 M. ; and A. C. Gildersleeve, '92 Law. THE Morning Journal and the World of Sunday, February 9th,…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1890-02-27 →

About College | HE senior petition for " grind week " is being rapidly circulated. MORGAN and Hansen have been dropped from the '92 crew. THE date of the Joint debate has been changed from May Ist to April 30th. A NINE from the freshman class will play the Columbia Grammar School team on Saturday, April 25th. Miss NOE, of Louis XV.'s reign, seems to have made an impression on Professor Quackenbos' mind. PROFESSOR Keener's absence on Monday and Tuesday of last week was the cause of many sarcastic expressions of regret on the part of our would-be lawyers. THE Greek note-books of '92 now record the terrible flunk of Burchell. What a previously unheard of circumstance that this sage should be unable to recite. THE dog that recently strayed in to a Law School lecture caused very much the same disturbance which might have arisen if he had entered a kindergarten. THE freshmen are evidently…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1891-04-23 →

About College A great deal of interest is being taken in debating this year. The officers of the Union, composed of three members from Barnard and three from Philolexian, have been attempting for some time to elect officers. They are awaiting the appointment of a Freshman representative to release the dead-lock. Professor Hallock, of the Physics Department, has recently received a sum of money from Secretary Eangley, of the Smithsonian Institute, for the purpose of carrying on the investigations in acoustics, which Professor Hallock has undertaken. The money comes from the well known Hodgkins Fund. An elaborate system of electrical clocks and bells, to ring at the beginning and end of every lecture hour, is being put through all the University buildings. They will be regulated from the Superintendent's office in the Library. Work has been stopped temporarily on the big well in…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1897-11-17 →

Named in The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) at the referenced leaf.

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

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