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...following resolutions were adopted at the recent lacrosse convention at Harvard...
...recent discussion in the Nation, carried on also to some extent in the outside press, it cannot be said that on either side it was particularly edifying. The question at issue seems hardly to have been touched upon at all with much seriousness. Indiscreetness, painful bad taste and ill-disguised intolerance would seem to have been the chief characteristies of the several articles discussing the question. Of the amenity and sweet reasonableness, such as we should hope to see in such a debate, there was apparently none. In view of this it can hardly be said that further discussion...
...recent sketch of the history of the Boston Advertiser, given in a late issue of that paper, some interesting references were made to certain Harvard professors who have been connected with the paper. We find that Prof. Dunbar, who had been a regular contributor for several years previously, became an associate editor in 1861, and in 1864 became sole editor and part owner. In 1868, on account of impaired health, he withdrew from active service as editor, and in the following year permanently severed his editorial and business connections with the paper, when he accepted the Chair of Political Economy...
...York Times begins its account of the recent athletic convention facetiously thus: "A score of swell young men assembled in an inner room of the Ffth Avenue Hotel yesterday afternoon, where they laid off their fashionable great coats, placed aside their crookhandled canes, and proceeded to take counsel together regarding one of the most popular branches of university education. They were the delegates from the principal colleges to the Intercollegiate Athletic Association...
...supposed that all hazing and kindred amusements, formerly prevalent at American colleges, were things of the past. Recent events, however, have proved that these outbreaks still remain as institutions of some of our leading colleges. At Yale, in spite of the strong attitude of the college papers in favor of allowing the annual "banger" rush, which takes place on Washington's birthday, to die out, as did the freshman theatre parties, in vogue up to last year at Harvard, the class of '86 gave their voice in favor of perpetuating the silly custom by appearing with huge canes Thursday morning...