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...certain freshman was heard to ask the name of a man who roomed "in the Bursar's house" meaning Wadsworth...
...progress. The more collegiate study is elevated in its facilities and methods the broader will be the scholarship evolved. A university in contra-distinction to a collegiate education will be the education of the next generation. Some schools close their eyes to the fact and refuse to believe it. Certain decay awaits such. Other colleges acknowledge the truth and advance to meet it. Princeton is a college which has long been one of the foremost colleges of the land; we trust that it will soon be justly termed one of the leading universities of our country...
...these courses regular recitations are held, and no examinations are given; the men meet the instructor at certain times merely to show him their work and to obtain his advice as to its further pursuance. The student is relieved from all hack-work, and is afforded an opportunity of pursuing his special topic with the maximum freedom...
...have literary ability, is not deemed a grind, in just the same way that a great classical or mathematical scholar is. He who writes for the college papers gets a popularity, small to be sure, but in kind, somewhat like that of the athlete. It is, in a certain degree, a credit to the class. Accordingly, many who cannot distinguish themselves in athletics, are beginning to look upon a place on an editorial board as a good way to become favorably known in college...
Lastly, a certain amount of credit is due to the present senior class. Eighty-six has an unusually large number of men of good literary ability. The example of these men has been a spur, not only to their classmates, but to lower classmen. They have both improved the already existing college papers, and have founded the Monthly, a magazine of uncommon worth. On the whole, it looks as if the present time would figure in tradition, as have those years in the seventies, when the Lampoon was founded...