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...points are all childish and badly taken. He makes nothing but general statements, which are in the power of any individual to make in support of any charge, however ludicrous. What right for instance has he to assume that the men who draw for rooms do not act in good faith? Does he suppose that every man is willing to perjure himself with the readiness with which he seems to be so familiar...
Among the President's nominations yesterday were those of Alphonso Taft of Ohio as minister to Austria, and Gen. Badeau as consul-general to Havana...
...room in his first drawing it seems that he is to be considered after those who have never drawn at all. It would be much fairer to let the freshmen take their chances with all the rest of the men in the college and draw in the general drawing. But the one great evil is the abuse of the right of transfer. The remedy is to stop transferring of rooms. Allow no transfer and the chances will be fairer for every one. If a man draws a room and finds he cannot occupy it, let him give...
...published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned...
...junior exhibition prize at Yale was very curiously divided this year on the section line between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand...