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...very large one it is. Unfortunately no author has ever taken it upon himself to make that set the personages of his book, but it does exist. Alongside of the "fast" set there is the hardworking set - that set of men that come to college to study and to learn. It is true that their lives afford less material for a romance than do the adventures of wealthy men's sons and the prowess of boating men, but there is still a field for some novelist who wishes to describe college life in the doings of this other set. There...
...unsalted" members of '86 have much to learn, viz : that second-hand note books are not for sale at the head-quarters of the Co-operative Association, and that "cut postage stamps" can be bought at the post-office...
...grounds of the new athletic park at Yale, we learn from the News, are to contain thirty acres. The park will be about a mile from the campus, and will be easily accessible by the horse cars, which will run direct to the gates. The grounds cost $21,000. They will contain several large buildings for bath and dressing rooms, fitted up with all conveniences, a quarter-mile track, lawn tennis courts, base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and cricket grounds. There will also be a grand stand accommodating one thousand spectators, which will be erected at a cost...
...dollar a week, without at least a short apprenticeship. If he wishes to become clergyman, lawyer or doctor, a regular course of two or three years' study is required, and after that a season of weary probation, waiting for hearers, clients and patients, in which he has to learn that new science - how to influence and deal with human nature. Every man, especially every young man, thinks he can edit a newspaper and manage a farm; but let the first-honor man of boasted 'fine literary abilities' go into a newspaper office in search of a position and see what...
...Harvard friends. It may have been poor taste on the part of the latter to act as they did. It certainly was; yet who but our own freshmen urged on the visitors to the perpetration of acts they dared not do themselves?" The fact of the matter is, we learn from good authority, that there were but two of our freshmen on the Yale campus when the bonfire was started and the "uproar" took place. Still the Yale papers would have us believe that these two were sufficient to throw the whole city of New Haven into confusion...