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...students had the symptoms of the small-pox a few days ago, and created quite a scare among his friends. Their fears proved groundless...
...penny evening paper, the World, seems to have started out with a good opinion of Harvard men, and yesterday expressed itself as follows: "It is rumored that the Yale students propose to receive Oscar Wilde after the manner of the welcome extended to Count Johannes some years ago; putty blowers, decayed oranges and overgrown sunflowers, being substituted for bouquets and applause. The New Haven Register trusts, for the honor of Yale and the credit of the university city, that this programme, if intended, shall be dropped. 'Yale,' it says, 'should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm...
...university is helped by the success of its graduates in their respective callings. Some years ago an eminent lawyer from the West, not himself a college-bred man, and having no affiliations with Harvard, placed his son in the university. When I asked him why he had selected Harvard as the place for his son's education, he replied: "In my practice I have observed that a large number of men, whose principles I respected, whose manners I liked, and whose idea of professional honor and public duty commended themselves to me, were graduates of Harvard...
CINCINNATI, Jan. 25, 1882. The editors of the Academica, who were suspended from their classes in that institution some weeks ago by the faculty, because of a publication in the Academica that gave offense to the head of the faculty, were reinstated last Monday...
...will thus be seen that, on the whole, the two crews are in better physical condition than most of our professional oarsman are apt to be on the eve of a race. Harvard's boat was sawed in two for the seventh time this season a few days ago, and the Yale boat-house, with its contents, was burned for the fourth time last night. It is understood that every man of each crew has been heavily bribed to faint while the race is in progress, but there is no doubt that the bribes which have also been paid...