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...care to write on any one of the given subjects, he may choose one of his own, provided he obtains written permission from Mr. Gates. The essays must have an argumentative character and a literary form, and neither of these components must be slighted in order to enhance the effect of the other. By argumentative character is not only meant that one of two sides of a question may be upheld as in debate, but that both sides may be discussed, and it the arguments, fairly stated, tend to leave the question in doubt, the forensic will not for that...
President Porter of Yale yesterday handed in his resignation to the Corporation of Yale College to take effect at the next commencement...
...long been said that if foot-ball were to be abolished there was ready at hand a sport to take its place almost its equal in beneficial effect and in the popularity which it enjoyed. The game of lacrosse has for some time occupied with us an intermediate place between foot-ball and base-ball. Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by, lacrosse can well come to the front and take its place. Some interest has indeed been manifested in the sport, but the disappearance of the old familiar rush of foot-ball...
There is an old saw to the effect that "time and tide wait for no man." Years of experience have convinced nearly all the denizens of this world that the saying, like many others of a kindred nature, contains a very large proportion of truth. In fact this truth has stood the test of so many seasons that it has ceased to be a subject of more than passing thought to anyone. Now, when a man; in the face and eyes of the world, or at least so much of the world as is contained within the walls of Memorial...
...with every student in the course of his four years of residence at Cambridge is the occasional visit of the man who wishes a little pecuniary aid to enable him to stem the current of his misfortunes. The placards displayed in the hallways of every dormitory are of no effect in repelling invasions of this kind, and it is not until a student gets well into his junior year that he acquires the art of speedily ridding his room of such unwelcome guests. The man who wishes you to add your name to his list of subscribers...