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...juniors' promenade at Yale will take place tomorrow evening...
...freshmen's banquet at Ithica, N. Y., took place Friday evening. The sophomores threw a few bottles, with a chemical compound therein, at the windows, and made a great deal of noise, but they finally withdrew. The two kidnapped freshmen were not released until Saturday morning...
Statistics are interesting occasionally, when there are real flesh and blood persons "statisticised," and some of ours have been taken lately, which are not without suggestiveness. In the first place, one hundred and odd girls represent twenty-two States and Territories in our Union, and Canada and Nova Scotia outside. But whether they come from Wyoming or Texas, California or Florida, they are as like as peas when they march to church in procession on Sundays, in their sealskins and great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature...
...petition is being circulated by those who take Philosophy I. to have the examination postponed until after the mid-years. Simple justice requires that the petition should be granted. The examination ought to have taken place last Thursday, but for some unknown reason the instructor failed to make his appearance, and it was announced that the examination would take place next Tuesday or Wednesday. The unfairness of interposing another examination in a week that is so hard as the last week of the semis is so obvious, that it does not seem necessary to do more than merely call...
...whether they would continue the experiment of lectures in the freshman course. Now, undoubtedly, this unfortunate spirit does exist to some extent among the students; but still there are some things to be said in extenuation, and especially so in the case of the freshmen; for in the first place, the freshman course is not elective, and much of its work which is not elementary and novel, but considerably specialized, must be irksome and uncongenial for the majority. Moreover, while the system of advanced sections brings about some sort of a selection of men, it by no means amounts...