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...Williams Athenaeum advances an admirable idea in proposing and advocating the establishment of a stronger "inter-collegiate feeling" among the colleges of this country. "Let us," it says, "discuss in our departments matters of general interest to the college press, and college world; create an inter-collegiate feeling beyond the mere exchange of college publications. There is enough which concerns us all, to make at least one department of our publications reach farther than our own campus confines." The growth of such a feeling is, we think, coming naturally in the course of events. Inter-collegiate sports, races and meetings...
...authorities ought certainly to take some measures to insure better arrangements for the courses in elocution next year. That interest in the study of vocal training is constantly increasing is shown by the large number of candidates for the Boylston prizes who entered the recent preliminary contest. There has been much dissatisfaction among those who took elocution this year with the frequent resignations, leave-of-absence and so forth, and with the generally negligent manner and want of interest shown by the authorities...
Harvard men naturally find the local papers of other colleges generally of little interest. Of course, a Harvard reader can always find something of interest in the papers of Yale, Columbia or Princeton, our great athletic rivals, but in other respects few of them are worthy of extended perusal. The Columbia Spectator finds many readers here, however, and is always a paper of sufficient merit and brightness to repay reading. The Princeton Tiger is of the same class, only "more so," and is rapidly becoming a very entertaining and valuable publication. But the journal which, in our opinion, would...
...Globe of yesterday contained an article on Harvard students which should be read by every one who feels any interest in Harvard. It will do much to correct the erroneous views of the bulk of the people in regard to Harvard students. People in general, and particularly Western people, have an idea that it is impossible for any man unless he has unlimited means to send his sons to Harvard. But "there is no doubt a moneyed atmosphere there, but there is underneath that a stratum of air which a visitor never breathes, which Boston people seldom know...
...sale on Wednesday at Sever's, Amee's and Memorial. It embraces the best of the sketches in the first series of the Lampoon down to 1880, and has a heavy illustrated cover. To those who have not a complete file of the paper, it will be of special interest, and to others it can but prove acceptable. Subscribers are requested to lose no time in securing the number of copies desired at Sever's. The edition is not large...