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...dispenser of liberal education to the South and West. It has to-day more of its alumni in the Senate of the United States than any other College in the Union. About 200 of its alumni occupy professional chairs, while many others are conducting first-class academies.-[N. Y. Post...
...penalty of twenty shillings fine. How this system was first received is thus told by a writer some forty years ago. "Great discontent was immediately evinced by the students at this regulation, and as it was not with this understanding that they entered college, they considered it an ex post facto law, and, therefore, not binding on them. with these views, in the year 1791, the senior and junior classes petitioned for exemption from the examination, but their application was rejected by the overseers. When this was declared, some of the students determined to stop the exercises for that year...
...Frenchmen-for those who "pay taxes; the blood tax above all." They would not go so far as to demand the exclusion of foreigners from the various lectures or courses, but they would like to see them denied the privilege of taking part in the competitive examinations. -[N. Y. Post...
...compare with that of a young Russian Jew, now studying chemistry at Berlin, Too poor to carry on his studies unaided, and too proud to receive help, he has got employment in the night brigade of street scavengers, and works away briskly for a small wage.-N. Y. Post...
...following extracts are taken from an open letter on the foot ball championship published in the New York Post and later in the Yale News, over the signature of Captain Richards of the Yale eleven. He says...