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...these words we have tried to show rather how bad most college verses are than how good. There is an immense amount of sifting to be done to make up a justifiable collection, and after the next sifting how many of this collection will ever be read again? If it is necessary to offer any apology for the practice college men indulge in of writing verses, we can say that they do it for personal amusement and are wont to make their private anguish a burden to the public. At all events it is not meant to last...
...opinions or language of its contributors." In a few lines beyond this it says: "The Advocate and the Crimson have stated a number of times that they hold themselves responsible only for their editorial departments and not for contributed articles, and the statement is as true now as it ever was." The Advocate is much more guarded in its statements. The position taken by that paper is that the sentiments of a contributed article are not necessarily the expression of the editorial opinion. According to the Crimson, however, the Advocate does not hold itself responsible for anything outside...
...Gambetta was temporarily buried at Pere la Chaise cemetery, Paris, on Saturday. The funeral procession was one of the most imposing ever witnessed in France. It is estimated that 200,000 people followed the remains to the grave. The final interment will occur at Nice tomorrow...
...have at my elbow in my own study - as I have had for some days - in a convenient nook in my official den, another good friend of a book, to make me seem to others wiser than I am, and to show me to myself more deficient than ever...
They complain that Harvard students live too luxuriously, so much so that when a poor young man enters the university the contrast is more than ever painful to him. This is a matter which must be mostly governed by parents. If they permit their sons at college an undue allowance of money it is certain they will spend it as fast as it comes to hand, with no thought of the morrow, and probably with the fixing upon themselves of habits of extravagance which will be highly dangerous, should a change come to their fortunes after they have graduated...