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...they play in New York on Thanksgiving or four or five days earlier than that, no one, except themselves, is able to see. If Yale persists in her course, it will look as though it was fear of Princeton rather than support of a great principle which influences such action...
There was early an idea that the action of many supernatural forces would be discovered by the powerful eye of the microscope; and the microscopist of the last century was regarded, by his servants and others, as somehow in league with that devil, whose discovery was due to the savant and the humble "flea glass" of the century before...
...many worthy people, who have the interest of Harvard at heart, that the system of voluntary recitations pursued here is one which has brought about a great lack of interest in recitations. There is really a widespread opinion that this indifference manifested is worthy of some sort of action. Yet how different are the facts. Thursday, a few minutes before twelve, members of the upper classes on their way to recitation were surprised and dazed at a wonderful sight. Fifteen or twenty men left University at that moment and started on a dead run in the direction of Harvard street...
...severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget his own honor as to bring by any wilful action any stain on the good name of his own college, ought to be regarded as a source of harm to the college world, and to be so treated by his fellow students. Such men, we regret to say, exist in our college...
...members of his own class. In very truth, if the admission of foreign commodities on an equal footing with home products is the only way to reserve a healthy state of our commercial markets, how will this restrictive high protection act upon the intellectual wealth of those under its action? Shall we find each individual offering to his fellow classmen, products equal to those found in the unlimited markets of the outside world of literature? It is barely possible...