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...large ruins near Bagdad recent excavations have unearthed more than 10,000 tablets of the most ancient dates, which are covered with Assyrian inscriptions. They have been sent to the British Museum. The London Times conjectures that they are antediluvian...
...uninitiated the subject of a recent university thesis comes with ambiguous effect. It was on "The Development of Lucifer...
...York papers have commented on the recent disturbances at Princeton in a way that must have made poor Dr. McCosh weep. In spite of the attempts of the doctor to make the Princeton students good and orthodox, the New York Times probably has some good reason for saying that "the Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian...
...question of the paternal versus the nonpaternal theory of college government seems to be buzzing in the bonnets of a few of our elderly contemporaries. President Porter started the discussion by coming out emphatically in support of the former system in his recent report; then the Nation took him up in an editorial article expounding the two theories and explaining how the former or non-paternal theory is essentially the European idea, and the only reasonable system for a true university, and how the latter theory, represented by Yale, is the native American idea, and can reasonably be only applied...
...good story; but then there is no harm in accuracy, and the papers lately, you know, have been somewhat inaccurate in their statements and conclusions on the freshman Music Hall affair. For, as a matter of fact, the party of men from '85 who attended Mr. Wilde's recent performance did not represent the freshman class, as a class, by any means; and so really the freshman class is quite innocent of either praise or blame in the matter, and, I am sure, is very unwilling to pluck any of their hardearned laurels from the brows of their sixty...