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...Boston Herald says: The delivery of Jones, the Yale pitcher, is said to have been so unfair in the Metropolitan games as to provoke considerable comment, and it is said that, unless he makes some change in his delivery, the college teams will kick. In view of the futile efforts of the league to enforce legislation on this point, the action of the collegians will be watched with interest...
...only exchange ever mentioned by the Register was the Etonian, "published by students of the different colleges in England." The exchange editor (presumably) makes this comment: "The contributor of the best articles, both in prose and verse, is the editor, Winthrop Mackworth Praed ; a name which will hereafter be distinguished in English literature, if the productions of his maturity correspond with the promise of his youth." That exchange editor and successful prophet was J. O. Sargent, at present an overseer of the university. An appeal for the reading-room on page 64 we are tempted to transfer bodily and apply...
...affluent parents may spend at Harvard from $1,000 to $1,800 without acquiring a reputation for extravagance. While at Oxford, England, a commoner has been known to spend Pound2,000, or even pound3,000 a year without exciting comment...
...American in what single instance college boys were incited by their daily journals to any such a heinous piece of business as we were guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent...
...action of the New York alumni, in reaffirming the resolution of last July calling upon President Bartlett to resign, has caused considerable comment in the college, the general opinion seeming to be that, while it might have been well for the president to have resigned at the time of the first resolution, it is now a foolish and unfortunate idea to revive a disturbance hurtful to the college and once settled, especially since the actions of the president have shown such good-will towards the college, and zeal in urging its interests...