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...following amounts have been paid up to date. The Freshmen have subscribed $250 less than their share...
...pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage is read aloud and gives the reader as much, or rather more pleasure than marking it would...
...Columbia Spectator publishes a violent attack on Thwing's "American Colleges." The book has received more than its share of commendation, and less than its share of condemnation; it has many weak points, and a malevolent critic, like the writer in the Spectator, might have made Mr. Thwing feel very uncomfortably: but the attack is too general and too short-sighted to do that gentleman much damage; the author of the article has wasted a good opportunity. His proof-reader has not learned to spell President Eliot's name. The Spectator contains a very friendly notice of the Harvard Theatricals...
...First, That an undue share of time, money, and exertion is given to the cultivation of muscle in the universities; secondly, that by reason of success in athletics, the universities arrogate to themselves superiority where they do not possess it; thirdly, that other colleges and the outside world are deluded into this belief, and fall down and worship the gilded calf. We remember hearing a young sport say in a library in this city: 'There's no doubt about Harvard. I would n't give two cents to graduate at Yale. I graduated at Harvard.' Better no education...
...games of the Athletic Association last Saturday were very good as regards sport, and brilliant as regards audience. Providence certainly has contributed its share this year towards the success of the H. A. A., for both the Saturdays on which these games have been held were exceptionally fine. The track was in superb condition, and from some of the times made it hardly seems to merit the assertion of being over length. The sports began very soon after 2 P. M. with...