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What earnest appeals we have from social moralists for the recovery of that lost art, "the old-fashioned girl," the girl who didn't wear bangs, nor high-heels, nor pull-backs; the girl who sewed, cooked and swept, instead of reading love novels and, like Boccacio, living them, as do the trifling flirts of today...
...organization of a school of languages and literature in connection with Columbia College; now the perfected scheme for the ensuing year is open to examination. I confess that I regard it somewhat askance. It is a query whether or no a college gains by enlarging indefinitely its curriculum. The old American college course was and is well suited to our social conditions and needs, and any scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could not regard with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities...
...correspondent of the Spirit says that "The new American College Association football rules are conducive to more talk and claims of foul than the old Rugby Union rules, and this is an unpleasant feature...
With a real old solid thumpin...
...told how in the old junk-shop...