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...many symptoms of imbecility often shown by the authorities of some colleges, none has ever struck the writer as so indicative of narrow-mindedness and intellectual cowardice as the recent action of the Bowdoin College faculty, which ordered the librarian to drop the North American Review from the list of periodicals taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought...
...recent extensive robbery at the boat-house certainly demands serious attention. How unfortunate and unpleasant it is can be appreciated fully by only those who met with the loss. The experience has been so expensive that it is to be hoped that the profit derived from it will be in reasonable proportion to the expenditure. Some months ago, almost every day it was found necessary to chronicle considerable thefts at the gymnasium, but by due care the evil was finally removed, for all time let it be hoped. The authorities of the boat-house owe it to all interested...
...Cornell Era in a recent editorial speaks of a matter which will perhaps prove of interest, in view of the fact that the chief care at present is to have the new suit resemble as little as possible an apoplectic fit: "We have hitherto confined our attention to college affairs. But within the past ten days an affair has happened which, although small in itself, yet involves a principle which is of no small moment. We allude to the action of a well-known firm in this place in bringing suit against one of the students who refused to take...
...principal colleges in the foundation of the American school to be opened at Athens next autumn, is a matter of great satisfaction both to the school committee and to the Archaeological Institute. This co-operation seems to indicate a feeling of mutual fellowship and sympathy, which is, perhaps, of recent growth among our institutions of higher learning - a feeling which cannot but bear good fruit in the future. Although the membership of the institute has increased largely throughout the country during the past year, and now approaches three hundred, a further increase is desired to render possible the most energetic...
...London papers print a story that both Mr. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt have been warned that, at a recent Irish meeting in London, the hope was expressed that Mr. Gladstone would be assassinated next, and that this expression was received with loud and significant applause...