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...Yale Lit is lighter this month than usual, but it is no less readable on that account. In the criticism of Deirdre, the author prefers, with Philip Gilbert Hammerton, to praise, than with the Nation to condemn. One of the best things in the Lit is the following courteous explanation: "We have an explanation for the Cornell Era, that referred to us rather discourteously in a late issue. The color of our cover was chosen for us, dear Era, O, ever so long ago, long before we came here; long before it was suggested to the great Mr. Cornell...
...always more or less coarse. If you pass your time for a month or two in their company, and in their company alone, you will be amazed at your own roughness, to say the least, when you mingle once more with the fairer portion of humanity. A man at college, where home and where home friends do not happen to be accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided...
...month of November was a month of great athletic activity at the English universities. Rowing, foot-races, cricket, and foot-ball were all attended to, to say nothing of the "meets" of the Bicycle Clubs. At three meetings of the Cambridge club the "runs" on bicycles were, respectively, twenty-one, twenty-eight, and twenty-seven miles...
PENNSYLVANIA. - (24 students.) - Every person has a right to vote who has resided in the State one year, and in the election district where he offers his vote two months, next preceding his (the?) election; and if, being twenty-two years of age or more, he has paid a State or county tax, assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election...
...admonition for first offence; a public admonition for second offence; for the third a public confession of the offence at some public meeting of the students; for the fourth, "he shall be noted down for a prophane person and have his commons sittings in the Hall uncovered." After a month's trial, if he does not reform, he shall be expelled...