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Maud S. will be driven on the road next summer by W. H. Vanderbilt...
...party of Princeton students will visit Texas next summer to study the flora of that State. The Chicago Tribune prophesies a bad season, consequently, for the cow-boys...
...young men; that Yale boys should have what they want; that Harvard's Greek play netted a handsome profit; that the Harvard students who endeavored to disturb Oscar Wilde at his lecture in Boston, now realize that their action was not very creditable; that the college boat races next summer promise to be more exciting than ever, but that college presidents are opposed to the sport on the ground that it engenders betting and gambling among the students...
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...