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...Tufts, which, we learn, is situated somewhere in the outskirts of Boston. In our edition of last Tuesday we referred to a small band of men, presumably students, who were in the habit of amusing the public every week by walking down Washington street wearing the mortar-board, an English custom aped by some of our smaller American colleges, presumably for the purpose of giving them a somewhat "Englishy" look. A Tufts correspondent of the Boston Post, yesterday, gave his college away by fathering these mortarboards. The representative of this distinguished institution gives vent to his wounded feelings...
...debate yesterday in English 6 was on the question : "Resolved, That the United States should take measures to the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty." Messrs. Snow, Warner and Storer took the affirmative; Oxnard and Barlow the negative. The result was in favor of the affirmative. The question for the next debate, February 16, is: "Resolved, That the bill now pending in Congress, by which the members of the Cabinet are admitted into Congress for the purposes of speech, ought to become a law." Affirmative: Rogers, Whiting and Keep; negative: Webb, Allen and Delafield...
...Perry yesterday continued his lectures on English Literature. He devoted considerable attention to Addison's "Cato" and the dramatic tendencies of the age in connection with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services...
...property of Wm. H. English has been attached for the payment of some campaign debts...
Elliott, the English oarsman, is at the hospital in New York...