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...chiefly written by alumni, so that we cannot judge it by the same standard as other college papers. There is nothing of which to complain in the perfectly impartial account of the Freshman race, excepting perhaps the remark that "as usual, Cornell had won"; and that is too harmless a piece of self-deception to call out any reply...
...excellent article on "The Sphere of Criticism." Another, entitled "As Regards Eating," is tolerably amusing, though it gives us rather a startling idea of the company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed is sometimes dangerous, when...
...only to pay $70 cannot expect as good accommodations as those who pay $300. There is a class of writers for the College papers who seize upon some imaginary wrong of this description with avidity, as it affords them a subject upon which to write. These little attempts are harmless enough when carefully pruned by the editorial shears, but in this case the feelings of the writer have evidently got the mastery of his good sense on one or two occasions...
...quite fashionable for Harvard men to be somewhat boastful of the various advantages and superiorities of their Alma Mater. This boasting is harmless enough, but it would be well for the men who indulge in it to devote themselves to the present; for, should they look into the past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record...
...they naturally succeeded in eliciting only groans from the ranks of '80. While going down stairs after the play, the Freshmen sang, but this could not have interfered with any one's enjoyment of the music or of the acting. In short, their behavior, although remarkably juvenile, was entirely harmless...