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...reciprocate the sentiments expressed in the extracts from the article on Eastern colleges in the Oberlin Review quoted in our yesterday's issue; and surely every Harvard man will agree with us in this. Such sentiments are both admirable and truly generous, and far too seldom find utterance either East or West. We fear lest our Western friends, who are often too sensitive to the ignorant sneer of the Eastern undergraduate, will misconstrue our meaning. "In this brotherhood of colleges there is no place for jealousy...
...midst of its deadly strife with a corner drug store, to say a kind and cheering word for Eastern colleges. Now, is not the following from the Oberlin Review, really admirable and charitable? "Our Eastern exchanges are discussing the prejudice that exists in Western colleges against those in the East, and it becomes a question of interest to us whether it is not true that our notions of these Eastern institutions are not somewhat hazy, and whether we do not have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies of the students in the older colleges. There is but little...
...less experience. On the other side there is an abundance of means, and more temptations, greater dangers. But the difference is growing less each year. The West is advancing rapidly, and the 'freshwater' schools are beginning to draw away students from the 'old salts.' The fair-minded student East or West will see that in this brotherhood of colleges there is no place for jealousy, and the Western depreciation of Eastern colleges is as absurd as the more frequent and ignorant sneer of the Eastern undergraduate at Western institutions...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., March 9, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England, increasing cloudiness, followed by snow or rain, slowly rising temperature, falling barometer, and east to south winds...
...lost steamer City of Berlin has been found disabled 700 miles east of New York. She was towed into Boston harbor last night. Among the passengers is Schaefer, the billiardist...