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...sensational report, in one of the Boston papers, to the effect that a Harvard sophomore used the college cheer to encourage one of the contestants in a slugging match in that city, is declared, upon competent authority, to be entirely false...
...tones, the practice has excited some comment. Especially was such sulphurous language objectionable on Monday when several ladies were present at the game. Their presence, which ought, if anything could, to have retained their careless or thoughtless players of whom I speak, seemed to have little or no effect, for the profanity still continued, much to the disgust of the thoughtful audience. It is hardly an admitted trait of the gentleman, and such I presume, these men consider themselves and wish us to consider them, to express themselves in public in such strong, not to say coarse language. Let there...
...ropes cheaper than bricks for prisons and for the purpose just as strong? This is one of the fundamental troubles of the state. Flogging and banishment from the camp was a very general punishment. The result of this was a friendly interchange of thieves. Hanging prevented this, out the effect of hanging was disastrous on the morals of the miners. After a time the communities began to see that this kind of law was not sufficient. The native American desire for order soon prevailed and by 1858 California was a well organized society...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The new plan in sophomore English, namely, that each student should briefly criticise the work of a class-mate, went into effect last Thursday. While it is too early to decide about the practical workings of the plan, we can still consider its theoretical merits and demerits. It cannot be denied that there must be a great deal of advantage accruing to a man from an examination of other men's themes, which he would get in no other way that has as yet been suggested. This comparison of the styles of others, and possibly of better...
...interesting phase of the elective system was suggested by the casual remarks of one of our professors recently. The remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase...