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...senior class of Columbia College, New York, have voted that "co-education is undesirable from the educational, social and moral standpoint." The "standpoint" of the Columbia senior seems to be the peaceful posing on the biggest pile of college endowment in America, blandly waving aside the opposite sex as educationally, socially and morally incompatible with his perfect and exclusive enjoyment of a particularly good thing.-[Woman's Journal...
...long since we have attempted to criticise our contemporaries that we have found ourselves almost overwhelmed with the constantly increasing pile of exchanges; and it is with a feeling of despair and dread that we put on our overhauls and prepare to slash around...
...pile comes the Vassar Miscellany, which is always a welcome visitor. To be sure, it is, on the whole, rather heavy and unsatisfactory reading, but if one is judicious there is much to be found that is interesting. It seems strange that so little poetry appears in its columns; and we are forced to believe the editors discourage the would-be Brownings and Hemanses, though the one piece which appeared this fall was a very clever production. We would suggest an increase of "College Notes," and an attempt at typographical improvement...
Quite a lively little blaze of two or three minutes duration occurred in a student's room, on Prescott street, yesterday afternoon. The origin of the fire is attributed to a coal from a cigarette, which, dropping in a large pile of papers, lay unnoticed until the papers, books and an adjacent window curtain were in a blaze. There was but one person in the room and he had to do some lively work to prevent a serious fire. The damage done to the carpet and furniture will probably amount...
...president of Dartmouth College caught one of the students helping himself to wood from the presidential pile. 'Young man,' saith the venerable officer, 'what authority have you for taking away that wood?' To which the youthful rogue, mindful of his Latin syntax, replied, 'Opus and Usus, signifying 'need,' require the 'Ablative.' 'Take it, my son, take it,' said the old man; 'but when you have need again come to me and I will give you better authority than that...