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...interview with President White he informed your correspondent that his views on the subject of co-education have not been changed by experience. He says that its influence on student life is to make that life more decent; that co-education at Cornell is a success; and that sooner or later it will be the rule at all live educational institutions deserving of the name. Columbia will probably not adopt it until the dwellers at that unfortunate monastery emerge sufficiently from barbarism to give over duelling and other mediaeval practices...
...American commerce. On the other hand, the Malagassy gentlemen about to visit Boston are not merely barbarians stranded on a foreign shore, but men of rank, one of whom is likely to become the prime minister of all Madagascar. Propriety, then, requires that the embassy be entertained with decent respect, and that we be more prudent and more generous than were the hosts of the embassy in Europe...
...then, the name of the graduate that will do all this. It is not a scrape pass; it is not decent mediocrity with a lanquid interest. It is a fair and even attention throughout, supplemented by auxiliaries to the class work. It is such a hold of the leading subjects, such a mastery of the various alphabets, as will make future references intelligible, and a continuation of the study possible...
...happy long ago. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. Foot-ball, for which the fall regatta was abandoned that it might occupy all our attention, seems to take it out in occupying. The cricket club is non est, and cannot attract enough attention to get up a decent funeral. Base-ball, towards which we had somewhat of a leaning a year ago, seems to have lost all its leaners, and the only thing which appears to have any life is our great and only repudiated lacrosse association...
...base-ball nines accommodate themselves to one field on those days? If Yale enters lacrosse next year, our team has good chances of beating her much worse than she has yet been beaten by Harvard. It is necessary, however, that our lacrosse men should practice in a decent-sized field, if Harvard is to keep up her reputation for having the best college lacrosse team...