Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DRINKING at Harvard is on the wane"; an involuntary sigh escaped me at seeing this melancholy statement in a recent College paper. Alas, these degenerate days, and this noble custom going to the dogs! Whither are we tending? Beware lest the sour old Puritanical days of New England return upon us in all their gloom...
...after all, what is the end of a college paper? What are the editors trying to do? At first I thought that they contemplated moral reform and spiritual advancement among the students; but I find on experience, much to my sorrow, that the sad and humiliating fact is that they want to make the paper sell, and have few motives higher than to be able to make their books balance. To do this they must please as many as possible, to secure a large circulation. And so it seems as if the programme might be profitably left to them...
...been erected at Yale. It is liberal enough to suggest that required attendance at prayers be dispensed with, as it appears to think that the strength of the religious convictions of the students would secure the presence of a large number at every exercise. The longest editorial in the paper is directed against the heinous sin of Sabbath-breaking, which appears to be startlingly prevalent in New Haven. It appears that the students at first fell from grace by yielding to the temptation to rest on Saturday and to study on Sunday. The "conscience, stretched by this relaxation," soon permitted...
...same paper contains a good deal of sporting news. The Cambridge Handicap One-Mile race was won in 4 min. 37 3/5 sec. The Cambridge University crew is hard at work. Their weights at present are as follows, - an English stone, by the way, is 14 lbs.: P. W. Brancker, Jesus (bow), 11 st. 9 lbs.; 2, T. W. Lewis, Caius, 11 st. 12 1/2 lbs.; 3, W. B. Close, 1st Trinity, 11 st. 12 1/2 lbs.; 4, C. Gurdon, Jesus, 12 st. 6 lbs.; 5, L. G. Pike, Cains, 12 st. 6 1/2 lbs.; 6, T. E. Hockin, Jesus...
...Cornell Review is furiously indignant with the Brunonian for having "plagiarized" from a Cornell paper the following sentence: "Perhaps there is no subject more thoroughly discussed among thinking students than general reading." The startling originality of the idea precludes the possibility, according to the Review, of its having occurred...