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...much interest is taken in the controversy about the torch-light procession, and everyone is so anxious to express himself in print on the subject, that our office is literally overrun with communications on this head. We can only say that it is "first come, first served," but even then we shall only be able to publish in future such letters as show particular worth or original ideas...
...question of the torch-light procession this fall has already become a topic of conversation and disband discussion with many of the students. As is well-known it has hitherto been the custom for the entire college, irrespective of party, to join the ranks of the Republican procession. This year, however, the union of the Independent and Democratic parties will cause many men to hesitate before joining a Republican procession. and then arises the mooted question. "Which procession shall we join?" As will be seen by the communication which we publish today, a mass meeting is proposed as the best...
...about ten o'clock one evening last week the Columbia sophomores, assisted by the juniors, some three hundred in all, assembled in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Each man was arrayed in a uniform costume of a long white gown and white "plug" hat and carried a torch. As soon as the collegians had all gathered at the hotel a procession was formed, which marched up Fifth avenue and thence to the grounds of the college. In their midst was carried an effigy representing Legendre, the mathematician. Every now and then when the spirit moved them they groaned dismally...
...present day Vienna and Berlin are the centres where our young men crowd for instruction. These must sooner or later yield their precedence and pass the torch they hold to other hands. Where shall it next flame at the head of the long procession? Shall it find its old place on the shores of the Gulf of Salerno, or shall it mingle its rays with the northern aurora up among the fields of Norway, or shall it be borne across the Atlantic and reach the banks of the Charles, where Agassiz and Wyman have taught, where Hagen still teaches, glowing...
...last look at the contents, - simply a football, with painted frill fastened to the head of the coffin." The elegist then, in the most excessively mock sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations, the noise of which might have been heard for a mile, read by torch-light the address, which we will reprint, with Mr. King's permission, from the Harvard Register...