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...seems no more than proper that we should notice what appears to be the death of hazing, though it may be but 2 comatose state into which "that good old custom" has fallen. Of late years hazing has been gradually softening down into a system of roughing - varied by an occasional barbarity - severe enough to injure only that stock of self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed...
...spirit of loyal attachment to their Alma Mater is strong among the Sta. Clara students, and, as it appears to be very genuine, it deserves the highest commendation. The religious element in the Owl is considerable, and his feathers are slightly ruffled by the breezes of controversy. It may not quite become the Magenta to meddle with such matters, yet there are one or two points which it behooves us to notice. The Owl's first article on secular education is good as far as it goes, and perhaps the writer did well to leave untouched the knotty and vexatious...
...Harvard way of accepting defeat seems to us much better than ours, as exhibited in the controversy of '70, and we may well take the lesson thus taught us to heart, to be acted upon in the future." - Yale Courant...
...Cornell Era. has an article entitled "A Plea for Literary Culture," in which the author has succeeded in giving some very good advice, as far as it goes, and some suggestions which may prove useful to those who have not read them more than sixty or seventy times before. But what we object to in the article is the very narrow view which the writer takes of culture. Were it not that culture is becoming really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high...
...closed, the telegraphers had an opportunity of proving their success by sending the news of the "Great Fire" in Boston across the line. Thus the birthday of the Telegraph at Harvard was celebrated by an event that will long remain a part of the history of Boston. May we not suppose that, as the burning of the "Temple of Diana," at Ephesus, celebrated the birthday of so invincible a conqueror as Alexander of Macedon, so the Boston conflagration was the herald of great glory to so rapid a communicator as our Harvard Telegraph...