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This punishment of degradation was characteristic of the times and was a relic of English aristocracy brought to this country by our forefathers. If the feelings and sentiments which prompted it had been allowed to increase much harm would have come to our colleges, as we can hardly conceive of the extent to which these social distinctions might have been carried, with their attending discomforts, unless interrupted and destroyed by that spirit of freedom and equality which was the primary cause of the Revolution...
There was a cut in English 5 yesterday...
...standard of education at Heidelberg is not so high as at some German universities, yet it has always been a favorite college among students, especially foreigners, and the attendance varies from five hundred in summer to eight or nine hundred in winter, of whom a large proportion are English and American. The library of the university has had a varied existence. First kept in the choir of a neighboring church, it consisted of some 3,500 manuscripts, but in 1623 it was sent to Rome by Tilly, who performed many acts of the same nature. Afterwards it went to Paris...
...students of Notre Dame University recently gave a representation of the "OEdipus Tyrannus," rendering the lines in English...
While I have not by any means been a close student, still I have not been entirely idle. I have read a good deal in French, German and English literature, being a particular admirer of Dickens and Victor Hugo. The Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables I have read each three times. Carlyle and Emerson, I regret to say, have not found in me so diligent a student. The newspapers and magazines I have always followed very carefully, especially in all articles on political topics and debates...