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...cudgels in behalf of either the advisory committee on boating or their unknown detractor in the Boston Herald, it seems no more than proper to say a few words about this dispute. To Harvard men it has doubtless seemed unfortunate that it should be given such prominence in the press of Boston. While we fully believe in the dissemination of news, college as well as general, through the medium of the press, there is nothing more deplorable than the tendency of that medium to emphasize and make capital out of personal attacks. Nothing is so strong a reminder in ordinary...
Such are some of the conditions by which education in Russia is suppressed. It is a state of affairs, however, only consistent with the previous policy of Alexander III. The press has been for some time deprived of its freedom, and the fettering of education is merely in the natural sequence of events. But probably the government cannot go much farther in its course, at least with success. It has already reached the point which has proved fatal to most despotisms, and there seems to be no reason for expecting the government of the Czars to prove the exception...
...Edmund N. Gosse of Cambridge University, England. Subject: "Thomas Gray;" with the reading of certain poems by Gray, as yet unpublished, which Mr. Gosse recently had the good fortune to discover while preparing his forthcoming edition of Gray's works for the press. The public are invited to attend. It is hoped that the reputation of Mr. Gosse as one of the most scholarly of English critics and as an author and poet, as well as the interest of his subject, will secure a large attendance from the college itself. It is peculiarly a mark of courtesy towards the college...
George Augustus Sala, the man whom the London press has dubbed the Prince of Journalists, is coming to America, and will lecture in Boston on January 7 and 9 in Tremont Temple. Mr. Sala is connected with the Daily Telegraph, and is the most prolific writer of living journalists...
...connection with the agitation concerning the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance, we print an article from the New York Times upon this subject. We are all familiar with the views held by the college press, but the stand taken by the outside press cannot fail to be noted with interest by all who have this reform at heart. The writer says...