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...charge is made that a new and gorgeous gambling-house has been opened in Boston, designed by its keeper to answer the particular requirements of Harvard College students. The selfish interest of the college alone would seem to require the immediate closing of that particular gambling-house by the police. There is a new college year to begin in a few months. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...announced in an item of this issue, Prof. Palmer will next year hold the recitation of his course in Hegel in the evening, if the class so desire. We would commend this plan most highly to other instructors. It seems to us that it would be most admirable to hold the recitations in some courses in the evening, instead of during the day. That it would be better for the health and eyes of students if they could be relieved of a part of the night work, by having the day for study, no one can doubt for an instant...
...cards for the 31st of this month. This "horn game" has been an established custom for many years, and never fails to attract a crowd of spectators from far and near. The freshmen have practised constantly all the spring and play a very stiff game, so that the odds seem to be in their favor, and the sophomores are in a state of unenviable anxiety...
...seems as if the public press would never cease from its attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale...
...Smith Russell will be at the Museum for another week with his "Edgewood Folks." The large audiences seem to be pleased, and that is all that is necessary...