Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ABOUT once a week some exchange editor finds it his duty to read the editors of certain college papers a lecture on the amount of space they devote to athletics. Now is it not as likely that the editors are just as good judges of what their readers want as are exchange editors of other papers? As for us, we have a library at Harvard where the students can have access to very much better articles on historical, philosophical, and scientific subjects than we could furnish, and the instructors in themes and forensics have kindly relieved us of the necessity...
...very much astonished to read, in the last issue of this paper, a wholesale attack, unsupported by facts or by any strong arguments, against the system of buying books for the Library. The writer's grievances seem to be: first, that the Library owns only one copy of "some of the standard books of reference" (the italics are our own); secondly, that "the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels, or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...
...seems but fair to inform those Freshmen who failed to make up "Classical Lectures" that the paper was not set nor the books marked by the last year's instructor, whose offer to do so was declined...
...guide, so I don't remember the way very well. You see," -growing confidential, to the great amusement of Jack, who can't ever keep his face straight, -"you see, they 've got an idea at home that I'm studying too hard, and when they saw in the paper (my grandmother takes the Weekly Transcript) that Janauschek was acting here, they thought it would be a good plan for me to go. So Uncle John and Aunt Hannah both...
...company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed is sometimes dangerous, when the stories told are not big enough to be improbable...