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...presence of the letter-box in front of University is not due to the influence of the College Press on the post-office officials, the Advocate to the contrary notwithstanding. A member of '79 suggested to a friend who is connected with the Boston Post-Office the want that the students felt of a letter-box in the Yard. The one now in use is the result...
...CHARLES F. THWING, who wrote the articles on college expenses and college studies which recently appeared in Scribner's, has in preparation an article on the college press. To aid him in preparing this article, he would be glad to receive one or more copies of the different college publications. His address is Andover, Mass...
...Cambridge Press would perhaps do well to restrict its Harvard correspondent to sign-boards and other similar subjects that give a fair field for the exercise of his somewhat lively imagination; for his attempts to deal with facts are remarkable for brilliancy rather than accuracy, that is, if we can judge from the way in which he speaks of the "electric" system, and from the following Junior forensic subject, as given in the Press, - "Is the popular estimate of Micawber as the ideal historian erroneous...
...indeed vandalism to tamper with anything so sublime. We bow with grave deference to its author, the complaisant editor who chuckles with delight at seeing in print more than a column of his nicely turned, choicely worded, carefully revised manuscript. We recognize in him a brother member of the press who sits high aloft beyond the pale of criticism, and casts his blunt weapons down at us. We are too greatly prostrated to attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though...
Blow strong, ye winds, press full their sails...