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...recent advertisement in a Paris paper for filles de ballet for the leading vaudeville theatre, it is stipulated that the candidates should not be over fifteen years old and should be accompanied at every performance by mother or sister...
...recent letter of Prof. Hale to the Nation (summarized in our columns), and indeed the whole discussion that has been going on of late in that journal upon the elective system, seems to have excited an unwonted amount of thought and questionings upon the subject at other colleges, and especially at Yale and Cornell. The Courant calls Prof. Hale's letter "conclusive and convincing." And in consideration of the universal interest and discussion of the question at present, it calls upon the faculty at Yale to make its defence and present its apology for persisting in its present course...
...recent editorial on "hazing" in the Sunday Herald is in one sense encouraging. It shows that the drift of public sentiment in such matters is towards a greater reasonableness and fairness of judgment in the affairs of college students, and away from prejudice and summary condemnations. In this particular the effect of the expression of such liberal and tolerant views by the public press can do little but good. But that the special illustrations that the Herald uses in order to enforce its meaning are really well-chosen and just is very doubtful. Both the Trinity and the Bowdoin affairs...
...recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, England, gave Dr. Lyman Abbott as his estimate of the total expenses of an undergraduate for a full year, including the long vacation, the sum of $1200. Dr. Abbott says the English college student is the "university gentleman." "No student smokes in the streets; no gentleman student drinks at a bar; drunkenness is rare and disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard...
...recent meeting of Princeton alumni at Cincinnati, one of the speakers, in comparing the various colleges of the country, said that Harvard was most distinguished in literature; Yale in learning; but that Princeton was most noted in public life...