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...last term most of the students left Princeton for their homes, but a party of about thirty turbulent spirits, principally freshmen, remained in the town to "make night hideous." They marched through the streets, stoned the professor's house, broke off young growing trees, damaged fences, and demolished sixteen street lamps. If the newspapers may be believed, "this and previous depredations, consisting of greasing the railroad track and sawing off telegraph poles., etc., bear semblance to a speedy return of old time larks...
...number of the Columbia Glee Club is sixteen...
...regarded as a touchstone for ability in scholarship. We do not intend to enter upon an invidious comparison between '81 and '80, from which thirty-nine men were taken for the Phi. B. K., but we cannot consider it otherwise than unfortunate that a society that in 1854 elected sixteen men from a class of forty should cut down its proportions at the graduation of a class with the high average scholarship which prevails in the class...
Nothing can effect so great a revolution as this last improvement. Harvard can now outrival the German universities. More time can be found for original work. The Juniors can be enabled by this improvement to petition for sixteen hours a week instead of twelve, and that the requisitions for a degree be raised. Or better still, let the Harvard(?) Annex, who have already crowded us in one or two electives, have their recitations in the College buildings from six in the evening until six in the morning...
...College records, not to speak of planting the seeds of a lasting enthusiasm in Athletics at Harvard by thus making the sports a matter of general interest to the College at large. Oxford and Cambridge have kept up this custom of Inter-University sports for the last sixteen years, and the inevitable success of these yearly meetings should certainly prove a sufficient inducement to Harvard and Yale to try the experiment. We shall hope next year to see our representative athletes side by side with those of Yale, and predict the unqualified success of the project, should it ever...