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...farewell to the class of '88, who in leaving college will take with them the best wishes of the whole University. The record of the class in scholarships, literature and athletics is unequalled. It is a heavy loss to a university when she has to part with such a host of "good, all-round fellows," and the prospect of the parting soon to come will be the only damper upon the Class Day festivities. We can wish for '88 no better success in their future life than that which has made them famous in their college life-a success...
...regret that lack of space prevents my speaking at greater length of the exceptional merit of the translations given in "Some Studies in Catullus." In many instances they surpass for perfection of rendering and beauty of English, the translations of Leigh Hunt and a host of other poets, not to speak of the clumsy productions of a pedantic Munroe. It gives an admirer of Catullus intense pleasure to see his spirit caught so thoroughly and rendered so well in our mother-tongue...
...very encouraging to note the steady increase of men from New York, especially when that state has two very large colleges, Columbia and Cornell, besides a host of smaller ones. Illinois is showing up extremely well, and Colorado, which is not on the list, has contributed this year as many freshmen as California. The Southern states are very backward in sending men here, none of them contributing more than two. In the West, however, Harvard seems to be popular...
...BrooksCliquot, a landlord of the 'Golden Fleece" - a host in himself...
...have been circulated through the newspaper world within a few years have had only the barest foundation in fact. The unparalleled atrocities and so on have consisted in a quiet call upon some unwary freshman, a reading of some Greek or Latin author to the company by their unwilling host. probably from a recumbent position upon the table, and, finally, an invitation given him to retire to his couch, in most cases promptly accepted. Occasional instances of a departure from this rule have been exaggerated to the utmost for reasons best known to the reporters. At last, however, Princeton...