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...Rather homely, and so blue...
...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...
...principle is at stake we make but a poor bargain if we exchange it for smoothness of intercourse. Witness our College, where certainly the tact alluded to in Holworthy's case is plentiful enough; no doubt that intercourse here is sufficiently oily, but is not the moral tone, or rather the absence of moral tone, somewhat juvenile? Certainly it is not characteristic of men to disregard morals; disregard of them is peculiar only to sots or very young men. Only when we free ourselves from these boyish views, and when we attain the moral courage to speak (i. e. when...
...Freshmen, postponed from Thursday because of the rain, was played last Saturday on the Boston base-ball grounds. On account, doubtless, of the weather, only about three hundred people witnessed the game. Besides the severe cold, the grounds could hardly have been in a worse condition, dry spots being rather the exception than the rule. The game, under the circumstances, naturally failed to be a remarkably brilliant one. The playing of the Yale men, however, had improved noticeably since the match at New Haven. Their determination to win, too, was very apparent, making the game the toughest one we have...
...Yale Courant contains an excellent article on "The Sphere of Criticism." Another, entitled "As Regards Eating," is tolerably amusing, though it gives us rather a startling idea of the company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed...