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...York Tribune correspondent at New London thus speaks of the place : "This quiet, staid and eminently respectable old town utterly refuses to allow its pulse to be hastened a single beat by the agitations of college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store...
...game between the University of New York and the Harvards took place Saturday afternoon. Two half hours were decided upon. Play commenced at 3.10, and the ball was soon forced near the New Yorkers' goal, where it staid for most of the half hour; twice only did they succeed in driving the ball near our goal...
...willing to use the University of Michigan in this statement as also representative of Western colleges of mediocre stamp, as the Review would seem to wish to have us do. That would be manifestly absurd, and we refuse to be cajoled into such a course, even by the staid Review. The Review treats of this whole question with so much patriotic ardor and industry and so much native vigor of style, that we are, after all, inclined to admire its work, even though it be done at our own expense. Such force and intelligence as the Review often displays, will...
...kept their overcoats on and some few tried to write with gloves. This last is somewhat difficult. The instructor himself complained of the cold. If it was too cold for a man who was at liberty to walk around, with his hands in his pockets, and who only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been for one who was obliged to sit still and write for an hour? It is not easy to collect one's thoughts when one is in momentary danger of freezing. A student, after looking over the examination scheme, remarked that...
...last number the Advocate appeared in a new light; no longer as the staid, conservative mentor of the Harvard press, now crying out against an abuse already ended, and now giving a decided opinion on a question already settled. This character it has put off once for all. It is now the aggressive champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What...