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...think it strange at all. This "peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that if statistics were taken in regard to the students in the various colleges in the country, the result would call forth a flood of articles from the daily press upon the alarming proportion of non-swimmers and upon the desirability of giving some instruction in this useful accomplishment. The question has been discussed time and again here at Harvard. At regular intervals the college press presents its time-worn article upon the subject, each time without the least effect...
...curve delivery in base-ball pitching, says the Philadelphia Press, was the greatest change ever introduced into the game, and in these days, when an old-time straight pitcher would be knocked out of the box in one inning, there are a good many claimants for the credit of originating it. College men, with the exception of those from Harvard, always insist that Avery brought it to light at Yale, while the Harvard men, who naturally would refuse to see a curve of two feet in a Yale pitcher's delivery, incline to the opinion that Mann, of Princeton...
...Cambridge University Press (England) have nearly ready for publication the first volume of Professor Jebbs long-expected edition of Sophocles being the OEdipus Tyrannus...
...fulfilling its highest duty by expressing what the whole student body feels? There can be no such right except that of might, and it is patent that might does not always make right. But, judging by the past, there can be no danger to apprehend that the college press will ever array itself in opposition to the college faculty except in the most extreme cases, and then it were far wiser that a most careful in quiry be made before such a measure as a threat to suspend be taken...
...authorities in regard to certain points in the government of the college. If an instance of this kind had occurred when college papers first began to be published, its cause would have been found in the fact that their influence was misapprehended and feared. But the college press have too long exerted a beneficial effect to suffer the suspicion of doubt as to their utility. Their generally just treatment of questions of college interest vindicates their right to a free expression of opinion, if they have any right to exist at all. That this is now a generally accepted belief...