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...correspondent of the Hartford Courant writes, commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...
There was an oratorical contest in this city last night, but so far as heard from no damage has been done to shipping on the lake. Oratory is a valuable acquisition. Some of the best orators in our colleges frequently make good third basemen after graduating.-[Chicago Tribune...
...Club in instituting lectures on topics that are of interest to the general student is well worthy of being emulated by the other societies in college. The lectures given in past years under the auspices of the Philological Society will be remembered with pleasure by all upper classmen who heard them, and those lectures given by the Historical Society were of such general interest that they have been thought worthy of publication in the Johns Hopkins University series. Besides the organizations mentioned there are several others in college which might arrange courses of lectures that would attract students and outsiders...
...band of Indians from the far West recently visited New Haven, and when they heard the Yale boys yell they drew apart and wept to think how they had been fooling themselves for years with the idea that they knew how to howl. [Boston Post...
When we first heard the new Iolanthean song...