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...report of one of the most harrowing outrages of the season comes to us from the back-woods of Maine. We have often taken occasion before this to comment upon the awfulness and depravity of the practice of hazing, and Bowdoin College has more than once furnished us a text. But now a case has happened at that college over which it little behooves the public to make light. One freshman, it is reported, after long and vain entreaties on the part of the authorities and assurances of protection, has at last tremblingly confessed the story of his wrongs...
...university feud between Konigsburg and Heidelburg, was settled last month at Berlin by duels between three delegates, without seconds, from each university. Konigsburg won, having drawn blood fourteen times. Delegates from all the universities watched the proceedings. The affair is reported without comment by the German papers. [London News...
...article in the last number of the N. Y. Clipper, in discussing the movement towards the reduction in membership of the college base-ball league, betrays such an entire misconception of the question and, indeed, of the whole spirit of college athletics, that we cannot let it pass without comment. "The proposal," says the Clipper, with an insight of which no one not thorougly imbued with the spirit of "professionalism" would be capable of displaying, "has a very suspicious taint of gate-money influences about it." Now, we beg leave to state that the argument of increased gate receipts...
...following item from the Yale News needs no comment: "At the end of last term two members of '85, bent upon a night's work at compositions, desiring something in the way of stimulants, provided themselves with two bottles of ginger ale. They were found naturally in a well-nigh exhausted state the following morning...
...great extent remedied. One of these abuses is the uncertainty one always feels after having completed his papers as to how near the truth he approximated in his answers. We do not refer to the custom some instructors have of not giving marks, as this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book...