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...three articles in the Bowdoin Orient indicate that hazing is by no means unknown in Brunswick. One humorous description of an unsuspicious Freshman walking under a Sophomore's window, and being deluged with water from above, is particularly noticeable. For the last few years the tone of American college feeling on this matter has been very healthy, and it is not agreeable to perceive, in the organ of a New England college, indications of a change for the worse. In a brand-new Western institution, where boorish boys and silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper...
...must never be idle. Noblesse oblige. He must constantly exert himself to maintain with dignity the position to which he lays claim; and in his whole life he must show to the world the fallacy of the popular notion that all that is needed to make an American a gentleman is a little knowledge of wine, a little knowledge of women, a little knowledge of song, and a very thorough knowledge of athletic exercises...
...window which has lately been placed in Memorial Hall is another sample of American work, and shows what a state of perfection the art of making stained-glass windows has attained in Boston alone. The present window was executed by the well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that...
...three reasons for the non-representation of the University of Vermont at Saratoga - the fact of their not belonging to the Association of American Colleges being of course of no account, as they undoubtedly would be received into it with open arms upon the expression of the slightest wish to belong to it - which are set forth in the conclusion of the letter must be satisfactory both to themselves and every one else: for if they are too busy, that is their own business; if they are too poor, every one will allow that Saratoga is not the place...
...first time. At the request of the Legislature the tutors were required to give written declarations of their political principles, and after the return from Concord one student who had been absent was refused readmission, because he had been "using the most impudent, insulting, and abusive language against the American Congress and General Court...