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...Echo is a laudable experiment. Whether it supplies a college need, as its editors hope, remains to be seen. The known character of the gentlemen connected with it shows it to be a purely literary enterprise; and they may be considered fair representatives of their class...
...lately taken great interest in secret fraternities, but the large number of these societies at other colleges must make Mr. Baird's work valuable to them. There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors William W. Goodwin, James M. Pierce, and Alexander E. Agassiz. Mr. Baird...
THERE is a sad state of things at Bowdoin. The Orient says: "It is known to the students, and probably to the Faculty, that during Sophomore year not one-tenth of the lessons are prepared without use of the "horse...
...rest. Report says, however, that the reason of this change is that the college year is thirty-nine weeks long this year, instead of thirty-eight; and, as this extra week is out of the common course, it is to be given us in vacation. It is a well-known fact that the large majority of instructors and students think that the ordinary recesses are insufficient; and we would strongly urge the Corporation to make this year's arrangement a permanent one. A saving of more than a week has been made in the time of the mid-year...
...Princetonian has a tirade against smoking, and more especially against inhaling, and says "Vultures and wolves have been known to turn away from the dead body of a tobacco-user." This shows clearly that any person who uses tobacco does wrong, because he thereby deprives "vultures and wolves" of that which is, no doubt, their due. But as an argument against the weed its force will not be felt by any one who does not intend himself especially for wolf-meat...