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College papers are not generally liked by college faculties; a situation which does not seem to give the papers deep concern. In college, as but of it, it is a safe plan not to put yourself in opposition to the papers.-[Progress...
...York Tribune, containing a personal attack upon a popular professor, to the students of Yale College. Such interference is in the highest degree impudent and underhanded. It is not at all a question of free trade or protection which is involved. The case is one of the greatest concern to all college men, as it strikes directly at the right of instructors to teach in the way that seems best to them. However disagreeable the teachings of a professor may seem to any set of men, it is absolutely necessary that the professor should be sustained in his right...
...success of the society, however, depends more directly upon the energy and efficiency of the superintendent. It is difficult to appreciate to what a great extent the past year's success has been due to the painstaking and thorough management of the present incumbent. Therefore it is with considerable concern that we learn that the present superintendent contemplates giving up the office. His reasons for this step are entirely personal. As so much of the success of the society has been due to the confidence its members felt in their manager, his resignation at this time would be a severe...
...vicinity of Boston. That so many colleges, professedly rivals of Harvard, have been founded so recently almost at her doorsteps, must indicate some wide-spread dissatisfaction with the spirit and aims of this university. That there are really objections, however, that are serious and deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian. But it may be that Tufts College and the Boston University do not attempt so much to rival Harvard...
After the good work done by '86 on the foot-ball field this fall every one interested in college athletics will watch with much concern the manner in which they will begin to prepare themselves for the base-ball contests next spring. Their gymnasium work will begin shortly after Christmas, and the spirit they will show in this preliminary practice is likely to have the greatest effect on their next season's games. It is hoped that the number of candidates will be large and their practice faithful, so that they may go on to the field in the spring...