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...will quietly separate the combatants. It is not physical timidity, but a sensitive consciousness of the disgrace of fighting, that keeps them from engaging in brawls. That they are not cowards is well proven by the fact that they submit without flinching to the most severe surgical operations without ever using anaesthetics. They maintain that it is very injurious to health to be nervous, to worry, or to give way to anger...
...Globe has been drawing large houses to one of the weakest performances we have ever witnessed. The same performance will be given during the coming week. It is thoroughly stupid and, while the Hanlons are clever acrobats, the piece, "Le Voyage en Suisse," does not possess the least merit...
...would be for the benefit of Harvard to have rival universities of the same rank throughout the country. An admirable feature of German student life is that no student ever passes his entire university life at one institution. He passes one or two semesters at this university and at that, and, perhaps, in the course of his studies, attends half a dozen universities, thus studying under the most famous professors in the branches he is pursuing, gaining the direct influence of the best thought of Germany, besides attaining a wide experience in all parts of his fatherland. It will...
...chairman of the executive committee of the Harvard Union, in his report at the last meeting, stated that the prospects of the Union for the next year were better than ever before; for the reason that the class of '84, upon whom the brunt of the work would then fall, had come forward with more readiness than any previous class. We congratulate the sophomores upon this compliment, and the Union upon its promise of growing usefulness for the university. But it is also time that the freshmen should begin to manifest some interest in the work, if this success...
...Dartmouth feels badly because Wellesly has two silver spoons that belonged to Daniel Webster. Because Webster graduated at that venerable institution, Dartmouth seems to think she ought to have everything that ever belonged to him-even to an old pair of shoes...