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...Yale, which is not at all surprising, as the students there probably enjoy the local references, and recognize the eight students whose adventures form the foundation of the work. The incidents are by no means new, but to the reader who has never seen the chief places in the Old World they may prove interesting. The eight begin their travels with a trip to the Harvard-Yale boat-race, where one of their young lady friends attributes the victory of the crimson to the fact that "those old veterans, Ernst and Tyng, have grown bald and gray rowing...
...they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position...
...There, each of the more important colleges holds a preliminary meeting, and the winners then compete for the University championship. The principle which has gained ground here of late, in athletics, o making the contests class matters, is an admirable one, an??? has proved itself far superior to the old schemes, in the revival of interest in rowing and base ball. Nor is there any reason why, if properly followed up in the present instance, it should not be equally successful...
FAREWELL, old friends, if I may call...
...Old Belknap, in my later days...