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...other case to which we refer, and which occasioned considerable comment at the time, was decided against a young man, Hawley by name, who applied for admission to the Indiana State Agricultural College, better known as the Purdue University. He tendered the required fees, affirmed that he was in all respects a fit person to be admitted to the institution, which he declared was maintained by donations from the General and State Governments, a tax-payer of which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring...
About every Saturday afternoon a small band of men, presumably students, furnish amusement for the public by walking down Washington street wearing those hideous things called mortar-boards. They cause more comment than our Chinese professor in his gorgeous holiday attire. We wish that for the sake of the good name of Harvard they would label themselves, so that even the mistaken few would not think they came from Cambridge...
...King's "Final Issue" of the Register is still meeting with favorable comment, and a large sale. "Our French Visitors," from the same publisher, has also met with great success...
...Some comment has been made by the members of English 6 in regard to a mid-year examination in that elective, as posted. There has never been any examination in this course, and we learn from Prof. Hill that in this instance it is not probable that the rule will be changed. No ingenuity has yet been able to invent a method of examination for a debating course, and the professor invites suggestions in regard to the matter...
...Nation takes the opportunity of a severe critique upon Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play" to shake his ambrosial locks in doubting comment on the results of said play for Harvard and the cause of Greek studies generally. It says: "College presidents will shake their heads when they read that for five months there were three or four rehearsals a week, and that for six weeks preceding the performance there was a rehearsal every day, to say nothing of the vast drain on the time and energies of the professional managers. A smaller college than Harvard...