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...Electric Lighting and Public Safety" is a call for greater precautions in the use of electricity, and showing that foreign countries are more careful than we. "Newspapers Here and Abroad," by E. L. Godkin is, as its title indicates, a comparison of our own with foreign methods, ours being chiefly newsgathering, true and false, whereas foreigners devote themselves more to editorial writing. Mr. Godkin's paper has no expression of contempt for our contemporaneous journalism, that the Nation so often and justly indulges in. "The Doctrine of States' Rights" is advocated by Jeff. Davis. Erastus Wiman writes on "British Capital...
This table gives a much fairer and, to Harvard, more favorable comparison of the growth of the universities. If this table is compared with the ones given in the Advocate for earlier years it will be seen how steadily and satisfactorily Harvard has grown in New York and the rest of the country...
Life at Amherst is so entirely different from life at Harvard that it is difficult to draw a comparison between the two colleges. Amherst men live under the restraint of faculty regulations so numerous that every hour feels its burden; compulsory church and chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks...
...Holmes' third paper of his "Over the Tea Cups," commences with a general talk of the company upon the subject of the last paper; then a witty comparison of Hadrian's hymn and Catullus' poem to Lesbia's sparrow, and the paper ends with a poem alluding to James Freeman Clarke a classmate of Dr. Holmes. The paper abounds in gentle satiric touches, which are full of the wisdom...
Thirdly, will the CRIMSON explain why a gain made by Yale is necessarily due to "accident?" What accident? What, by comparison, is the immutable law upon which the growth of Harvard rests? Is not this the attitude of the traditional ostrich, which buries its head in the sand when it gets into difficulties...