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...army in some instances for the summer vacation. The spacious buildings were a hospital for the Confederate soldiers, kept choked by the costly battles fought near by. When the war was done, the wearied people turned slowly to the thought of education, and the university regained its lost place slowly. Last year, esteemed a comparatively prosperous one, 330 students were enrolled, and this number is not likely to be hotably increased. It is an interesting fact that the University of Virginia must be regarded as the mother of the elective system in this country. From its foundation the students have...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -Considerable trouble is caused almost every day by the mixing up of hats in the dining hall. It certainly does not beget a person's best feelings to find on leaving the hall that his hat is gone, and in its place there is one much too large or too small for him. If each person would exercise a little care, such mistakes might be avoided, and a good deal of inconvenience done away with...
Fifty alumni of Hamilton College were present at their annual dinner, which took place Thursday evening at the Union Square Hotel in New York. Speeches were made by President Darling, ex-Governor Walker, Prof. Chester and others...
...disproof of Mr. Arnold's claim, which was based on facts. As to the question of our like or dislike as Americans to see Mr. Emerson's intellectual proportions measured with "a British foot-rule," it cannot possibly enter into any discussion based on Emerson's merit or place. But it might be said that "a British foot-rule" is a far more accurate standard of measurement than an American yard-stick, when the latter measures four feet to the yard. Of course, argument is useless in such a question. It can never be settled until posterity itself decides...
Here and there one meets today a few men who are a little belated in their work, who are still grinding through some stiff or special examination, and who are in cap and gown, and these lend a most pleasing variety to the general quaintness-almost weirdness-of the place and day. For really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long...