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...base-ball association has been organized at Boston University Law School. F. S. Hall, of last year's Harvard nine, is president, and J. C. Morse, '81, manager. A game will soon be arranged with the Tufts College nine...
...were often very coarse, for it was an understood thing that the authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced towards pigs at the Eton Fair that was held every Ash Wednesday. A barbarous usage had arisen for boys to hustle the drovers and then cut off the tails of the pigs. Gladstone gave great offense by remarking that...
...noted, however, that if there was always plenty of talent at Eton, able editors were as scarce there as elsewhere. The only three school periodicals which stand out as exceptionally good - the Microcosm, the Etonian, and the Miscellany - were edited by boys who possessed great firmness of character as well as genius and judgment. Canning, Mackworth, Pread, and Gladstone all knew how to recruit a staff, keep it up to the best standard of work, and prevent its members from falling out. If he had not become a statesman he might have done wonders in conducting a London daily newspaper...
...School commencement parts must be handed...
...large and completely equipped college preparatory school, "closely modelled after the plan of Eton and Rugby," is soon to be started at Laurenceville, N. J., a town of 5000 inhabitants five miles from Princeton. It is "intended to be to the Middle States what Phillips Exeter is to the Eastern States." The course of study will prepare directly for Princeton...