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...Transcript is responsible for the statement that "Yale has got the Smithsonian Institution Government fixed again in her interest as against Harvard's." What this dark hint may mean we cannot fathom. That there has been any active contest between the scientific professors of Yale and of Harvard for the control of the Smithsonian Institute, as this item would imply, is certainly a matter of news to the majority. Why Harvard should wish such control it is not easy to see. No, the Transcript is engaged in a very reprehensible business in fomenting jealousy between Yale and Harvard by dropping...
...London paper gives the following curious statement concerning the method of examination employed in the "Flowery Kingdom": It is a curious fact that of all Chinese cities, Canton, though it is within eight hours of Hong Kong, and has, of all the places in the empire, the longest known Europeans, has undergone less change than any other great centre of population in China. It remains precisely as it was hundreds of years ago, and when once the wall is passed the traveler might for all he can see, be at least a thousand miles from any Western influence. And there...
...Boston Globe is authority for the statement that the Cambridge Bicycle Club, will give a minstrel entertainment sometime about Feb. 1st, in which they will have the assistance of the Glee Club...
...catalogue of Princeton College for the current academic year has just been issued. The prosperity of the institution is shown by the statement that it has at present 527 students, divided as follows: Fellows, s; graduate students, 54; academic, 379, and scientific 86. Of these New Jersey and Pennsylvania each contribute 105, New York 83, Ohio 36, Kentucky 21, Maryland 20, the District of Columbia 15, Illinois 14, and other states smaller numbers. Bulgaria, India, the Sandwich Islands, Scotland, and the West Indies each send one. These students are instructed by 39 Professors and Tutors...
...considered a most natural interpretation, and beg to disagree with the News when it states that "it could not justly be construed as it was." While on this subject, we would also say, referring to "intemperate language," that the charge that the HERALD-CRIMSON made a "deliberate mis-statement," for any purpose what-soever, is certainly forcible, if not even more "intemperate" and discourteous than any expression which could or is even likely to be used without touching vulgarity...