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Derangement of mind resulting from "an attempt to master the classics," is the cause assigned for the recent suicide of a young lady of Wilkesbarre...
...clip the following suggestive passage from a recent article on book-borrowing as of particular interest to college men. "Only those who love books understand the pang of losing them. A man who handles his book with firm yet tender touch, who delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share...
...have no wish to continue any controversy with the Yale News in regard to its report on the recent freshman foot-ball game. One point, however, in an editorial on this subject which was contained in last Monday's News calls for further comment. The HERALD-CRIMSON, we wish to state, has no "eagerness to attack" either the News or Yale itself. Such an assertion is not only unwarranted but absurd. And further, we did not "deliberately mis-state" the item, as the editorial so courteously puts it. We gave it what we considered a most natural interpretation...
More than once during the recent discussion on the value of classical training have we wondered why the most important contribution in the defense of the cause of the ancient languages has been overlooked. Mr. Adams' speech last summer merely re-opened an old question which has been troubling the minds of the educators of all countries for some years past. This question will probably come up again and again in the future, as it has in the past. This will be particularly the case in this country. Where a people are so devoted to business pursuits...
...present below the following extract from an editorial in the Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact...