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...current number of the Manhattan magazine is by far the best number that has yet appeared. the principal articles are "Edwin Booth," by H. C. Pedder; "Literature and Science," by Matthew Arnold; "Recent Tendencies in American Journalism," by E. V. Smalley; "One View of the Chaucerian Mania," by Kate Sanborn; "Jasper Francis Cropsey," by W. H. Forman. Julia Hawthorne contributes a short story, and Edgar Fawcett continues his novel. The number is well illustrated throughout, the frontispiece being a portrait of Edwin Booth...
JUNIOR FORENSIC.The fourth junior forensic will be due on April 17. Subjects: 1. A criticism of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case. 2. England's Egyptian policy. 3. A criticism of Summer's "What Social Classes owe to each other." 4. What are the conditions under which a Republican form of government may be expected to be permanent? 5. Have we any knowledge independent of experience? [Any of the subjects for the fourth senior forensic may also be taken by juniors...
...Reed, inter-collegiate bicycle champion for 1883, has written a long letter to the Acta Columbiana in which he unwisely condemns the action of the delegates at the recent meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in deciding to have the two mile bicycle race in future run in heats. Mr. Reed says that a two mile race is particularly exhausting and claims that hardly anyone is strong enough to ride two two-mile heats in an afternoon. He mentions that "in 1883 the winner spent the night after the race in an agony, fighting for breath with the assistance...
...recent Yale alumni dinner President Porter said: "As far as Yale is concerned athletics are doing well; they do not divert the interest of the students nor do they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The tone of the students is improved by the slight diversion of attention which they cause. I take the liberty of explaining why we are reticent in making arrangements in regard to athletics with the other colleges. It is the result of long experience. The question has been talked over more than ten years, and upon it President Eliot and myself have bestowed...
...account of the recent trouble between the Cornell freshmen and sophomores is said to have been purely fictions. The sophomore class has called an indignation meeting to protest...