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...movement," he may in time be brought to see the absurdity of his position in this country, and to appreciate the fact that he is really doing more harm than good to the cause he professes to have at heart. Our hopes in this way are brightened by some recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein Mr. Wilde shows so much discernment and just appreciation that it almost seems that a mere statement of his case to him by an impartial friend would convince him of his error and induce him to withdraw from...
These wicked college students bring perfect godsends in the shape of subjects for editorials to the Post and other virtuous papers of the country. The recent Yale rush will be good for a column probably. Another case must not be overlooked by the Post in this connection. Last Tuesday a party of sophomores of Lafayette University, marching with a band to a banquet, were interrupted by a discordant band of freshmen with tin-horns. Thereupon, a rush took place, finally resulting in the arrest of three of the party by the police...
...reasonable if not in an original manner. But we have to make the same objection that we made once before - the newspapers fail to make distinctions; and when Harper's Weekly classes the innocent extravaganza of the Harvard freshmen at Boston Music Hall in the same class with the recent kidnapping and hazing affairs at other colleges - then we claim that it shows lack of discrimination and of fairness. We entirely agree with that journal, however, when it says, "There should be an active public opinion in college, which, by condemning lawlessness and outrage as unmanly, would tend strongly...
...recent criticism on Goldsmith says of his writings : "They will long attract us by their urbanity and intellectual hospitality - traits that were none too freqment among the contemporaries of Goldsmith, nor for that matter, even among the contemporaries of Carlyle, Freeman and Ruskin...
...that deserve to come under this head which are called by a milder name, because a college student is supposed to be incapable of crime - he merely breaks the laws." Again he says that a tendency to lawlessness has been observed at Harvard, Yale, etc., within a very recent period. We should be pleased to know in what manner Harvard students, for instance, have been guilty of any lawlessness during, say, the last five or six months. Harvard students have never enjoyed a better reputation than at the present time, and so far this year have been free from...