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MASSACHUSETTS. - (488 students.) - A person may vote who has resided one year within the State, and six months within the city or town in which he offers his vote, and has paid a tax within two years, provided he is able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name...
...Meteor of Rugby and the Etonian of Eton both reflect credit upon the English schools; all the matter in these papers is readable, and, we should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter...
...same time, very far from complimentary to us. It is safe to say that laziness has more to do with the lack of material for club crews this spring, than anything else. While at the time we were making up our minds that rowing too closely resembled work, our English cousins were struggling manfully at the oar. At Oxford, twenty-one colleges have boats on the river, and consequently a hundred and sixty-eight men, in addition to the University eight, show their willingness to sacrifice their ease enough to row for their colleges. The races just ended lasted...
...English universities, which, a short time ago, were all excitement about the "Eights," are agitated now by "School" and "Tripos." The Undergraduates' Journal says...
...elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course so traditionally hard, and he has therefore...