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...really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long, black, flowing gowns. Then there is to be the great ceremony of the commemoration-the public conferring of honorary degrees...
...Journal of Education has invited 5,000 subscribers to the Plebiscite to construct a body of English academicians. Alfred Tennyson heads the list, and his name is followed by those of Ruskin, Arnold, Browning, Froude, Swinburne, Freeman, Spencer and Black. These names are followed by those of novelists, including Shonthouse, Blackmore, McCarthy, McDonald, Reade, George Meredith and Wilkie Collins...
...case : "The Yale-Princeton championship game was kicked at the Polo Grounds, Saturday, Nov. 24. About six thousand spectators assembled to witness the game, which was virtually to settle the Inter-University championship. Most of these were college boys, and could be easily distinguished by their badges of blue, black and orange, crimson and blue and white, representing respectively Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia. That the game played was highly interesting and exciting no one will deny, but that it was foot-ball, as foot-ball should be played, we cannot admit. No doubt the game of Saturday was just...
...London Times says : "We have Wilkie Collins for plots, Mr. Black for sunsets, Mr. Howells and Mr. James for unrivalled painters in miniature, and Ouida for emotions, but we have not a novelist equal to those of the days of Thackeray and George Eliot...
...uninterrupted, until nearly through the first three-quarters, though just before play was called, a glance about the field seemed to reveal it filled to the fullest extent. Fully 10,000 people passed the gates. The colors of the two colleges were every where displayed, and relieved the monotonous black of the dense crowds packed about the since lines. The grand stand was fairly overflowing with fair supporters of the crimson or blue who, judging from their applause, seemed to take the keenest interest in every play. The ground was a tritle slippery, but otherwise everything seemed to contribute toward...