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...college authorities are compelled to take any action on such a matter as this. Far better would it have been for the graduates, acting by classes, to have surpressed this last relic of less manly days, then to have obliged the coporation by feeble and negative means to attempt to enforce dicipline over graduates to which under-classmen alone are subject...
...visit of about forty Harvard freshmen in a body to the theatre, about a week ago, is probably the expiring gasp of a custom long prevalent. They conducted themselves quietly, and made little attempt to make the proceeding a class affair. It is believed that this is the death of the last of the practices kindred to hazing and sign stealing. - [N. Y. Post...
...daring but unsuccessful attempt to murder Judge Lawson of Dublin, Ireland, was made Saturday evening...
...students is so small. The summary treatment which gymnasium and laboratory thieves have met with in years past has, it is hoped, tended to make such diversions as theirs unpopular; but the umbrella fancier has returned to college with his cupidity undiminished - rather increased by the knowledge that no attempt is ever made to detect him. It is to the credit of the employes of the gymnasium and laboratories that when money, watches or other articles were purloined, they have exerted themselves to discover the culprits; and that they have generally been successful. Why cannot the umbrella collectors at Memorial...
...this State went into the room of a freshman whom they judged to be verdant. After the sophomores had got into the room the freshman asked what they wished. "Oh, we have come to put you through," was the reply. The freshman told them they had better not attempt anything, but they scornfully refused to listen to advice from a member of a lower class, and made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned...