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...entering should have a knowledge of the novel called "The Mill on the Floss." Appreciating the propriety of keeping such literary stuff out of a boy's head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature material for the education of youth that may be quite as useful for the mental and more suitable for the moral education...
President Arthur has made no arrangements to go to Long Branch, and it is more likely that he will seek a quieter resort, where he would be more free from care and too much company...
...broadness that would not be tolerated in Harvard journalism. We could readily give illustrations of this fact, but it would be useless; all who have read co-educational college papers must have noticed it. We do not wish to be rude, but with all due respect for girls who seek an education equal to that furnished their more privileged brothers, we say bluntly to the doctor of divinity that we do not believe co-education is the good that its advocates claim...
...prosecute a strict inquiry as to the cause for the present stampede, and if any person or persons are to blame, to make known the fact. There must be some reason for such wide-spread dissatisfaction, and the only way to restore the lost patronage is to seek it out, acknowledge and eliminate it. We speak thus strongly upon the subject, as there is urgent necessity that vigorous measures be taken: The association has done a great deal of good in the past and may still continue its usefulness in the future, provided we all take an interest...
...screaming Tiger, going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the Ibis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie...