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Later, - Midnight.A telegram just received from the scene of action announces that the Sophomores, after razing the city of Boston to the ground, surrendered to the authorities of Cambridge, and, being taken before the Police Court in that city, were fined five dollars and costs each, a just and fitting punishment for their inhuman atrocities...
...five different colleges. The time and place suggested for the opening contest was New York City January 7, 1875, so that, happening during the holidays, it will add still another attraction to the pleasure-giving metropolis. Only half the colleges represented had agreed to be bound by the action of their representatives, and to some of the other half that hot-bed of iniquity, Saratoga, was an insurmountable obstacle to their participation. We are in doubt as to the character of the proposed contests. Are we to be reminded of our childish days by hearing recited "Marco Bozzaris," or "Spartacus...
COLLEGE exchanges indescribably dull. Western papers exploding over last year's jokes; Eastern agitated about the intellectual tournament, which (judging from the action of the Hartford convention) has dwindled down into something rather superior to an old-time spelling-match, but inferior to a good peppery debate in some Philopolysyllabic fraternity of Western fame. Apropos of the above, we are grieved to learn that black corruption has been at work in the proceedings of the convention. Vide the following extract from the Daily Saratogian...
...MEETING of the undergraduates was held on Wednesday, 11th February, to take action on a circular letter signed by committees of Williams and Princeton Colleges, inviting the attendance of delegates at a convention to be held at Hartford on the 19th, in regard to intercollegiate literary contests...
...Amherst Student, in an editorial, assigns its reasons for withdrawing from the Regatta in a straightforward, manly way which commands our respect, though we think her action a mistaken one. If the pledges of the Saratoga Rowing Association are fulfilled, Amherst will again enter the contest next year...