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...students of all the colleges in the country must unite in condemning the action of the person or persons who recently sent marked copies of the New York Tribune, containing a personal attack upon a popular professor, to the students of Yale College. Such interference is in the highest degree impudent and underhanded. It is not at all a question of free trade or protection which is involved. The case is one of the greatest concern to all college men, as it strikes directly at the right of instructors to teach in the way that seems best to them. However...
...action of Congress in regard to the admission of books and printed matter to the free list is being watched with interest by all students and readers of the country. The omission of the duty is of particular importance to the Harvard student as far as text-books are concerned, as in a very large number of courses in college the text-books used are exclusively foreign publications. At present the duty on these books makes the courses in which they are used unnecessarily expensive. It is painful to think of our text-book as a tax upon...
...Amherst seniors have appointed a committee to draw up resolutions disapproving the action of the faculty in debarring Amherst from the inter-collegiate games, and a mass meeting of the students will probably be held to protest...
...Wednesday evening with the graduate advisory committee, and decided that the latter should meet the president and captain of the Yale Boat Club at New London, on Monday, Feb. 10, for the purpose of settling the conditions under which the race should be rowed. On account of this action the boat club meeting, which was to have been held last evening, was postponed until after the meeting at New London...
...will rejoice all friends of the university that such a manly stand has been taken by Yale. Harvard has long enough dictated to Yale as to her every line of action in contests between the two colleges, and Yale has in almost every instance bowed down to the wishes of her rival and consented to submit to her dictation. Harvard's last letter, as the Record aptly expressed it, reduces down to the statement that she is willing to do anything fair and square provided that Yale does just what she wants. Time and again has Yale given...