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...class rushes at the Yale Sheffield School are not noted for their tameness. One fellow, some time ago, was completely stripped of his clothing and forced to scramble to his room with a long ulster wrapped around...
...only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic journal, Life, of which the first number will appear next week, is composed almost wholly of bright young Harvard wits, who have found Boston a good training school but have discovered that New York henceforth is the ground for successful literary careers...
...Portland paper contains the following anecdote concerning a Harvard professor: "John Quincy Adams was an advocate of early rising. Professor Greenleaf, of the Harvard Law School, was not. One day the ex-president attended lecture, and fell asleep. The professor pointed to him and addressed the class, 'Young gentlemen, behold the effect of early rising.' It is a reminiscence of one of the students...
Prof. Pennell has accepted a position in a private school in New York...
...foot-ball troubles are concerned we can only say that not only Harvard but Princeton disapproved of Yale's method of play. Still, neither Harvard nor Princeton ever accused Yale of being a mere training-school for "muckers." We only claim that Yale plays a game of foot-ball which we consider adapted only to "muckers" (if the Spirit wants to use this word), and in so far only as Yale supports this style is she "muckerish." Still, at Rugby, England, an equally rough game is in vogue, yet no one characterizes Rugby men as muckers. That this style...