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And thus it is that I am surrounded by disagreeable fellows whom I don't even wish to know, all because of this new idea, so prevalent among the Faculty, of abolishing class distinctions and discouraging class feeling, and of making the privileges of the Freshman even greater than those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEIGHBORS. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

Another writer in the same paper goes to much greater lengths in his attack on our time-honored institution. "K" is not at all cool or persuasive in his arguments, but "goes for" class feeling as an abolitionist might have spoken against slavery. He says: "Its atmosphere is stifling, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEIGHBORS. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

The reasons of opponents are chiefly practical, such as their experience has taught them. Thus, President Eliot says that, having examined some thirty mixed colleges in the West, he has come to a conclusion hostile to them. Oberlin College, which began without distinguishing in any manner the female from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

Colonel Higginson quotes Voltaire, - "Ideas and beards are alike, - women and very young men have none"; so we do not place much confidence in our opinion in this matter, which is as follows:-

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

COMPLAINT of the mutilation or disfiguring of books belonging to the society libraries is, we believe, always in order. Our attention has lately been drawn to the various comments, side notes, and cabalistic marks which spoil the appearance of many an interesting work; it surely ought to be borne in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1873 | See Source »