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...will be reconsidered. There seems to be no doubt that if Columbia is admitted, Yale will only be too happy, by entering the new league, to get out of the isolated position in which she has, been for some time. In regard to Columbia, Yale thinks that college will prevent the unholy combination which Yale expected would rule things with a high hand in a triangular league...
Last night Colonel Bancroft announced his intention of running cars again to-day, and without interruption, hereafter. The strike will probably not last over two or three days more. The company is determined not to yield; the strikers cannot prevent their places being filled by new men; and violence never is an ultimately successful thing, especially if it is illegally resorted to. In three days the strikers will have either gone back to their posts, or will have none to go back to; their only satisfaction and that a brief one, will be to see the green conductors ringing...
...general feeling of dissatisfaction among the students at some of the existing arrangements in the library. At present if a student is a half an hour late in returning reserved books, he looses his privilege of drawing books for a whole month. Thus a single lapse of memory may prevent him from drawing any reserved books during the entire examination period. This is a great injustice. A week would be an ample period of expiation. Then again the present fine of ten cents a day for overdue books is outrageous. In the multiplicity of things which engage a student...
...disappear very fast, but will also be swelled considerably by the drainage of the surrounding land; for Holmes Field is on a much lower level than the gymnasium ground or North Avenue or Jarvis Street. Hence, there will be a large sheet of water there, which will not only prevent the use of the field till quite late in the season, but which will also become dangerous through stagnation...
...Woman's Journal, commenting on the new college to be founded at Princeton for the education of female students, says: - "To prevent the manifestations of rowdyism which every now and then break out at Princeton and other exclusively masculine colleges, the presence of girl students would do more than the police. It is safe to say that under the separate system the young men and women will think more about each other in a morbid way and there will be more attempts at clandestine correspondence and flirtation, than if they met each other every day naturally and simply...