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If, before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

PROBABLY no one has ever attempted prose writing wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF POETRY, - ART VERSUS SPIRIT. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

FROM the Courant we learn that the question of hazing is attracting much attention just now at Yale, and should judge that both those who are in favor of continuing the old custom and its opponents have very strong feelings upon the subject. A writer in the same paper suggests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

It would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLITICS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

Saratoga has been mentioned, and it has no doubt great advantages, especially in hotel accommodations; but the course is three miles away from the city, and, if the race is not rowed towards the city, the finish will be six miles away, and there is nothing but a carriage-road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGATTA COURSE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »