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...subject of self-gratulation which is never wanting to Yale, namely, the great success of its graduates in political life, which it attributes to their college training in such things. It now appears that "nearly ten per cent" of the college-bred men, members of the Forty-second Congress, were graduates of Yale. If society wire-pulling is the proper school for a successful politician, let no one longer wonder at the venality of Washington...
...considering the second point, it is right that the College government should pay some attention to public opinion. If it is thought that our religious feeling can be strengthened by such a regulation, by all means let it be done; but it must be done in the best way. Outside of our Faculty there are very few people who are qualified to point out the best way. Every one knows that to nine tenths of us the present system is a perfect farce, and is therefore positively harmful. In Oxford and Cambridge, whence so many wonderful changes are expected, there...
...second game of foot-ball between the McGill and Harvard Tens last Friday was awaited with the greatest impatience, not to say anxiety, by every one in College. The game on Thursday had been a disappointment to all who saw it, for the Canadians, from ignorance of the Harvard rules, had failed utterly in resisting the Harvard Ten, who won the three goals so easily that the McGill players seemed standing in the field merely to be spectators of their opponents' excellent kicking. But on Friday, when the game was to be played according to the McGill, or rather Rugby...
...when the strawberries and ices appeared, the President, Mr. Warren, rose, and after cordially welcoming the guests, proposed as the first toast of the evening, "Our Alma Mater." To this Professor Bocher replied briefly, speaking of the future of our University and of our paper. Professor Palmer was the second to speak, in response to a toast to the Faculty. He spoke with much warmth of the need of a better understanding between professor and student, pointing out the fact that the feeling which still exists, though yearly diminishing, is due quite as much to the student's idea that...
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