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Princeton has found weekly journalism too slow for the present rapid whirl of college life. The Princetonian, well known for same years as a staid weekly periodical resembling the Advocate, but a trifle more newsy, appeared on Friday in a new form very like the CRIMSON. The New Jersey students will hereafter receive their rations of news items, accounts of base-ball games, etc., with the proper leaven of editorial, not at lengthy intervals of a a week each, but every other day. The editors whose enterprise has brought about this change, and the college which is to receive...
...Annex club has at last received a name. It is called the "Hedonian." It is surprising that these staid and intellectual young maidens should thus publicly announce that, after all, they are seeking for mere pleasure, that they have sworn allegiance to Epicurus, and that they can think of nothing more noble than the principles of the Cyrenaics...
...thought was good, but his delivery had the fault of its school. It was too oratorical-showing the speaker's art too perceptibly. Whenever he digressed into illustration, however, Mr. Dougherty was perfect. The audience certainly appreciated it, for Sanders rang with laughter, in a way which that staid old theatre has not witnessed since the class...
...Memorial Hall at the lunch hour. And all because the gentlemen of the party were ignorant of the rules of the hall, and did not remove their hats. The stamping which greeted them was simply outrageous, and its authors well deserved the hisses showered upon them by the more staid of the members. Although the greater number of men who engaged in the sport were freshmen, a considerable number of upper-classmen, shame be upon them, encouraged the mischief-making youngsters by stamping themselves. The head waiter knows his busines well enough to correct any breaches of etiquette which visitors...
Yale, Harvard, and the many other colleges of masculine propensities are not the only institutions at which the political excitement of the present year has risen to a feverish height. From recent reports we learn that the staid and studious halls of Vassar have been the scenes of many noisy and turbulent partisan demonstrations. Strange to say, however, the fair politicians have not rallied in support of Belva Lock-wood, as one would most naturally suppose. The college has divided on purely party lines, one contingent arraying itself under the banner of the G. O. P., the other, and smaller...