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...from the Yale News; the italics are our own: D. N. Baxter, '83, Harvard's champion heavyweight sparer, will enter for the amateur championship at New York in February Out-runner Bangs, who won the light-weight wrestling at the winter meetings last year, and also the cup for general wrestling, will try conclusions with the other light-weight wrestlers of the country at the same time...
...Princetonian gives this comparison of college papers in the West and East. "In the West there is painful evidence of a fear of passing beyond the bounds, and uttering some sentiment which, really they feel they dare not express. In the literary productions can be seen the lack of general culture. Everything appears in the same stereotyped, orthodox form, indicating a narrow curriculum, which we can almost name in detail. In the personals and locals it is again apparent that, outside of the recitation room the college mind is fed on the most petty details. All this surely declaring...
...humorous column comes direct from the editors' pen, and is not so frequently clipped. Illustrations appear, more taste displayed, papers regular and with dispatch, showing that they are edited for a purpose, to express opinions and convey news, and not simply for the sake of having a paper. General college news is gathered and topics of universal educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line of the old regime, helping to round a man out generally, give him the best of everything to fit him for life and not stuff...
...meet a committee of students in conference as to the furnishing of the gymnasium, the following committee has been appointed: E. E. Day, '84, of the athletic association; H. A. De Costa, '85, foot-ball association; V. E. Tomlinson, of the divinity school; I. W. Crosby, to represent the general interests of the college, and H. E. Taylor, '85, of the base-ball association...
...touched upon by the university faculty in their report of 1869. "In regard to the natural sciences, the most mutable of our chemists and physicists, as well as the representatives of the other departments, agree that the students from the Gymnasia on the average accomplish more. It is the general experience that the foretastes of these sciences obtained in the Realschule frequently dulls rather than stimulates eagerness for knowledge. Still less are the modern languages able to take the place of Greek and Latin; for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain...