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...think this strange. It is necessarily connected with our growth. Probably nowhere on this planet can a thousand young men be found between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who will not show examples of the heedless, the temptable, and the depraved. Let us not, then, shrink from acknowledging the ugly fact, extravagance is here-shameless, coarse extravagance...
...Scotch cutter Thistle is advertised for sale. The nominal price is ten thousand pounds sterling, but Mr. Bell would probably sell her for less, as he does not care to take her back to Scotland...
...Princetonian advocates the increase of trainer Robinson's salary to a thousand or twelve hundred dollars a year...
YALE, 6; HARVARD 3.On June 29th Harvard and Yale again met on the diamond, this time at New Haven. Although the championship had been decided by the game of the previous Saturday, still this game was of sufficient interest to draw over four thousand people to the Yale grounds. The field was encircled by carriages, and presented a beautiful appearance. Blue was everywhere and not a particle of crimson was to be seen...
...have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells us among other things that by an intricate method of skipping, the "Bharata" may be read in ninety days; what exercise for a novelist...