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...full sympathy with the recent action of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association, and Harvard is ready to cooperate with Yale in an attempt to exclude the perpetual and the imported athlete, But many of our men think that these evils may be removed by another method, which is not open to the objection of disqualifying entire departments of the University...
...play is certainly worth seeing, however. It is a serious attempt to advance the knowledge of French language and literature and as such is thoroughly commendable...
...attempt has been made to make of the December Atlantic a holiday number. It is in no wise extraordinary, but ordinary means a great deal when Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s name is signed...
...Cornell's acquisition of the "law library of the late Nathaniel Moak." With reference to this notice one or two corrections should be made. The statement that both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it as it is, is inaccurate. Harvard University has made no attempt to buy the collection, as is stated, although there has been some correspondence concerning certain American reports that might perhaps have been bought as duplicates. There was no occasion to buy English, Irish, Scotch, or colonial reports, with all of which the library is amply supplied...
...made Poet Laureate, and in the same year he published his "In Memoriam." and this poem has now come to mourners. We make no attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...