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...safely and well attend recitations and lectures, and partake of all else that co-education implies with men years younger than herself, but for inexperienced girls, with no knowledge of the world or its ways, it would be entirely different. Again, we say that people may express their pretty sentiments with the utmost eloquence, may utter their indignation for everything that savors of prejudice or injustice, but if they look the matter sternly in the face they will perceive that there are disfiguring wrinkles that all the cosmetics of art cannot drive away. Human nature is human nature...
...here be entirely neglected and of no profit to any considerable number. In many cases, of course, the eternal grind of college work prevents advantage being taken of the many opportunities the college has offered of late years for voluntary instruction; and, as the tone of college sentiment at Harvard grows higher, it is to be hoped that many of the severe requirements of the present may be abolished, and more liberty and opportunity be given for such purposes. At Princeton lately a course of readings by Mr. Locke Richardson has created the greatest interest and satisfaction. At Ann Arbor...
...Yale Record comes out in a new and tasteful cover. The Record agrees with the Crimson and Advocate in their theory of college journalism, and thinks "It is, too, rather self-possessed in a student to wish to vie with Herbert Spencer, or something of the kind." (!) A sentiment entirely commendable if not very lucid...
EDITORS OF THE HERALD: During the last two weeks, certain students have been considering the formation of a society, the aim of which will be the creation of a stronger college sentiment against intemperance in drinking. The plan of organization is not yet fully determined, but it is expected that a total abstinence basis will be found to be necessary. If it were to be a total abstinence society of the traditional ironclad, intolerant stamp, we should expect and deserve a tornado of criticism and opposition; but it is to be nothing of the kind. In justice, therefore, to those...
...annual elections held yesterday in the principal boroughs of Massachusetts showed a general sentiment against a liquor-license...