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WITH the March number of the Yale Lit. the editors from the class of '79 relinquished the charge of that well-conducted magazine, and it will be fortunate for that journal if its new managers shall be able to maintain the high character which it has attained. We indorse the opinion that "it will be a desirable change in college journalism when the days of reviews and literary criticism are ended, and a period marked by more original, independent effort is begun," producing "fresh, live essays, filled with their authors' personalities and earnest with their own honest thoughts," even...
...flying trapeze, and Phil 3 apparently was a balloon ascension. (This last statement, I know, supposes that balloons were invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones in muddy water) Span I was a three-legged race, and Gmn 6 a race backward. Various objects of interest were exhibited to amuse those who took no part in the active sports...
...HOLMES, in his interesting memoir of John Lothrop Motley, has given a glimpse of Motley's college career. Motley entered Harvard College in 1827, at the age of thirteen, and at the end of his Freshman year stood second or third in his class. He made no effort to maintain this rank, and soon neglected his college duties to such an extent that he was "rusticated," which expression Dr. Holmes finds it necessary to define as "sent away from college for a time...
...raised his eyes, he caught sight of some fair maiden shut up in a dim recess behind an impassable bar, just like the heroine of a fairy-tale. All this is changed; but still the obstacle to study is not wholly removed. The most inveterate grind can scarcely maintain his composure, and calmly shuffle those puzzling cards in the catalogue, if, on raising his eyes, he sees beside him a sylph-like form waiting patiently for him to finish; and even when his eyes are on his book, his ear will catch the sound of a gentle step far different...
...idea that there is no mean between officious independence and toadyism. This fact "G. E." has avoided. He merely says that popularity is the result of insincerity. If he will take the pains to look through college, he will find that the really popular men are those who maintain a manly independence, but do not let their tongues run away with them...