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...weather the past few days has interfered greatly with the seniors' games, and though some few started out bravely a fortnight ago with tops and "nigger baby," the cold weather of the past few days has driven them indoors...
Maud S. will be driven on the road next summer by W. H. Vanderbilt...
...last sentence may be disregarded, and the statement of fact given in the extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible ally. It is the statement of Matthew Arnold, in his book on "Higher Schools in Germany," that it is coming to be a recognized fact in England that the educated business men of Germany are beating...
...over. At 3 o'clock this morning about 40 sophomores swarmed in front of the door leading to the freshmen's rooms. Finding the door barricaded, they cut it down with an axe. The two frightened freshmen were allowed to dress and were then hustled into a carriage and driven rapidly away. They were told they would be killed if they made any outcry, but if they kept quiet no harm would come to them. The party were driven to the village of Homer, where they were placed on the cars for Syracuse, accompanied by two sophomores, L. B. Ingalls...
...result among the men is really a matter for wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...