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...second semester of the University of Michigan opened Monday...
...Sunday Times has an interesting letter from its Paris correspondent, on the manners and customs of French students, from which we extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his books at second-hand in the old bookstores, or along the quays. . . . The Latin quarter is always represented by a Radical in the parliament, and most of the students are ardent Republicans. Unlike the students of Germany and the United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus...
...fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage to the interest of the course if some means could be taken, during this second half-year, to improve the standard of the reading and not allow the many fine selections to be so mutilated in their delivery as they have been...
First fresh: "Are you going to "Hazel Kirke." Second fresh: "I don't know, is there to be a matinee this evening?" (Fact). - [Yale...
...girl aged seventeen and fourteen respectively were married yesterday, in Maryland. It was the girl's second husband...