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Senator Pendleton is said to have recently declined to deliver an address before the Historical Society of this college in accordance with his invariable rule not to absent himself from Washington while the Senate is in session...
...historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there are such, however, and it may be that the list of Bowdoin prize dissertations might furnish such a case, although perhaps not to be compared with...
...well known that men when in college, as a rule, will accept few advantages which they are not forced to, and also that after graduation they, with as few exceptions, thoroughly regret this neglect. Especially is this true of contributing to the college papers. Leaving out of consideration the benefit to those who later in life take to journalism as a profession, the practice in putting one's thoughts into such form as shall interest others is of incalculable advantage. We may have the materials for the best thinkers of the age in our midst, but they take no trouble...
...question of employing professional experts as teachers or "coaches" in college athletic sports has been hotly discussed of late in the colleges of Harvard, Yale and Princeton; and the rule, as applicable to base-ball, has been carried to the extreme of prohibiting college nines from playing matches with professional teams hereafter, Harvard inaugurating the movement in opposition to professionalism in the college sporting arena. Yale objects to having this rule observed, and Princeton has not yet endorsed it; but all the other colleges have joined Harvard in their opposition to playing baseball with professional teams. We cannot perceive...
...white. A simple heading of large type, in most cases, followed by an unattractive and disorderly column of hatters' and clothiers' advertisements formed the sole ornament of the front page. Now much of this is changed and we have a new order of things. Decorated covers are the rule rather than the exception among the papers of the leading colleges. This change has taken place quite suddenly and is still going on. Three years ago the Lampoon stood alone. Now fully a dozen of the best papers are resplendent in covers of soft browns, grays...