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That an old custom is, therefore, a good one, or that what is not done in college buildings and college hours is outside the jurisdiction of the college government, are two statements that hardly need refutation in the community at large, or in the Eastern colleges of the present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing...
...exercise. Now a match is measured inversely as the score, and the good old "74 to 70 games" are out of the question. Cricket, on the other hand, is played much more than formerly. College papers speak of it with growing animation, and a new departure from our present favorite seems possible, if not desirable. We will not enter into the relative merits of the two games, but leave that for the zealous partisans that assert their game manifestly superior...
...text-books a man is compelled to buy, in passing through the four years of his college course, would present, if kept together, quite an imposing array at the end of the Senior year. Many of these are disposed of at second-hand bookstores, or handed down to those who come after us in the hard road to learning; but every one retains a few, with perhaps a comment here and there on the text or the professor, if not for their intrinsic value, at least to call to mind in after years these hours of recitation, dragging so heavily...
...WITH the present issue we conclude the series of French letters by V. J. R. for this year, hoping next term to be able to give our readers a continuation of the series about superior instruction, and student life in Paris. We felt at first somewhat diffident about publishing serially what would be much more effective in a single article of a larger publication; but, as far as we can judge, the experiment has thus far proved satisfactory to our readers. Certain it is that those who keep their old Magentas have in the numbers of the past year...
...hear that the present volume of The Spectrum is to be used as a text-book in the post-graduate courses of mechanics...