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...following from the Oberlin Review, really admirable and charitable? "Our Eastern exchanges are discussing the prejudice that exists in Western colleges against those in the East, and it becomes a question of interest to us whether it is not true that our notions of these Eastern institutions are not somewhat hazy, and whether we do not have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies of the students in the older colleges. There is but little doubt that we Westerners do not properly appreciate the work done at Yale and Amherst and Harvard, and we are too liable to assume...
...school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn their country, but have attained real proficiency in many important branches. The young man writes cheerfully about his surroundings and prospects, and frankly admits that he misses the girls more than anything else. He adds: 'When I was in Shanghai...
...very wicked, for how can we reasonably doubt the strenuous testimony of so many immaculate public journals any longer? Here is how the American lectures us : "The college boys who behaved so rudely in various cities - especially Boston and Rochester - at the lectures of Mr. Oscar Wilde, were probably somewhat astonished to find themselves severely lectured for their conduct, in the newspapers. When they carried out practically what they had been reading in their daily journals [Rochester has no daily, so that must be aimed directly at Harvard], they doubtless had the expectation that it would be taken...
...from these considerations, society justly claims and exercises the right of providing laws of social conduct for its members and of punishing infringements of these laws. Mr. Wilde has infringed these laws; and the public has passed and is executing judgment upon him in its own way; a way somewhat harsh and severe it must be admitted, and sometimes reprehensibly so, but on the whole entirely just, we claim. Society, in a technical sense, may have foolishly coddled and patronized this nice young man, but the genuine public has expressed its emphatic disapproval of such proceedings. If Mr. Wilde...
...pugilist, Ryan, is suffering somewhat from his bruises, but will probably be all right...