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...large and brilliant audience assembled yesterday at the Coliseum to witness some gladiatorial contests that were given by our popular friend, Quintius Publius, recently elected to attend to the removal of ash barrels from the sidewalks, and the arresting of students, who to use the splendid words of the orator, must be destroyed...
HANOVER, February, 1882. That news is very scarce at this period of the college year in Hanover, no one, who has inhabited the place for a winter, can reasonably doubt. In fact, although Hanover is a splendid place in summer, we shall have to admit that in winter it is rather tame, to say the least. The snow has been at work for the last week, taking its day off and on, regularly, so that, by this time, the place has begun to exhibit its usual winter aspect, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the "oldest inhabitant" that Hanover never gets...
What was said in the first part of this letter about the dulness of Hanover at this time should be construed as meaning socially, and in no wise affecting the beauty of the place. For, although it has a much more splendid beauty in the summer, yet even in the middle of the winter it has a cold, still charm that endears it very much to the student of a pedestrian turn of mind, who starts off early in the morning, if possible, and tramps all over the country, finding substantial support in the good old cider and cold meals...
Despairing freshman - No, we don't think it unreasonable that your examination in physics should consist almost entirely of problems and formulas. The college expects that you are all going to become engineers or scientists. It is moreover a splendid discipline for the mind to cram a mass of formulas, and to neglect the general principles of the subject. And it is really silly to object because so large a proportion of the class get marks under 50 per cent., and that so many men get conditioned in this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple...
...professors encourage the students to frequent their splendid gymnasium by their own presence there, and by friendly trials of strength and skill. A man wrestles better with Sophocles after a wrestle with a Greek professor. The dining-hall, with the capacity to seat 1200 persons, is in the new Memorial Hall, which is probably the finest hall in this country, and strikingly resembles the celebrated St. George's Hall at Windsor. Five o'clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement...