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...committee for the various annual celebrations have been appointed, and are now hard at work - the seniors preparing for class-day and the sophomores for their triumph. The juniors will have no celebration this year, as the class is, unfortunately, broken up by factional strife...
...hazing into their own hands, and decree a decisive and final ending to what is becoming a monstrous abase and disgrace to intelligent men. This last outbreak would seem to cap the climax of the monument of foolishness that has been heaped up so industriously this year at various colleges. Community of interest and patriotic feelings no longer demand that these actions should be palliated and excused by their fellows; rather that decisive action should be taken against a longer continuance of this epidemic. The reform must commence from within and work its work by itself; the essential necessity...
President Arthur still remains mute on the Chinese bill. Various conflicting rumors abound as to his probable action...
Members of the Co-operative Society can obtain blue books at two and three cents each, stylographic ink at fifteen cents a bottle, blank books of various sizes at about two-thirds the usual price, and stationery from a third to a half less than the regular prices. Arrangements will be made next week by which lawn tennis balls, rackets and nets can be obtained at a discount...
...Strauss of 'Die Fledermaus.' Everything is well written, in a scholarly and artistic manner, the orchestra is discreetly and always elegantly handled; but there is also a nearly total absence of that spontaneity, that musical humor and sparkling freshness, which made 'Die Fledermaus' so delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than of inspiration. The only exception is the waltz with which the second act closes, a most felicitous effort even for Strauss, though not even in this number does he approach the level of excellence which occurs...