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...Wisconsin, meanwhile, were being enacted scenes far less sane, less normally boyish than the spectacle of 700 exuberant students cheering on a winter day under the window of their overseer. Rapine, carnival, all-night carousals, drinking-brawls, Babylonian revels???these said the press, have been going forward at the University of Wisconsin. Sorely, sorely, if the press is to be credenced, does the University of Wisconsin need an administrator. Judge Ole Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed...