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Under the title of "What is an A. B. Fit For?" the last Sunday edition of the New York Tribune contains an editorial that is so a propos that we present some excerpts. Speaking of the many graduates who are now "in the crisis of their lives," it says: "But after all, is it a crisis? How much do they really begin life when they sally forth with their diploma in hand? In every valedictory oration which will be delivered the same story is told; 'they have girded on their armor and are going into actual battle;' they 'have served...
...committee have already discovered that notwithstanding their urgent and apparently reasonable request about the disposition of tickets, a member of the class has seen fit to place on sale at a store in Cambridge sundry Memorial and yard tickets, to be sold to any one who cared to buy them. The committee, rather than allow this, saw fit to purchase them at a price far above their value; and they would now beg every member of the class who is contemplating any like action, to consider whether he ought to place the interests of his own pocket before the interests...
...necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them, and keep the freshmen at a respectful distance." Fortunately there is a different idea of the fit and beautiful prevalent at Harvard than at some places where, perhaps, vigilance committees have been found a valuable and essential factor in the dispositions of the social economy, or, when in default of a vigilance committee, the easier method has been employed of charging all faults upon their unfortunate guests...
...ever struck the writer as so indicative of narrow-mindedness and intellectual cowardice as the recent action of the Bowdoin College faculty, which ordered the librarian to drop the North American Review from the list of periodicals taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought to be unfit for youths of tender minds to read, is kept securely locked up. "This...
...Cornell Era in a recent editorial speaks of a matter which will perhaps prove of interest, in view of the fact that the chief care at present is to have the new suit resemble as little as possible an apoplectic fit: "We have hitherto confined our attention to college affairs. But within the past ten days an affair has happened which, although small in itself, yet involves a principle which is of no small moment. We allude to the action of a well-known firm in this place in bringing suit against one of the students who refused to take...