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...others. Deferring an extended notice of these to some future time, we turn to our college exchanges. Thinking that the feeling current among the different colleges with regard to the contests at Saratoga may be of interest, we print a few of the most striking passages in the various college journals...
...various ropes of flax...
THERE are at present stored away in a dusty alcove of Gore Hall fifteen or twenty flags won by Harvard men on various waters. They remain there only by sufferance, and are not only in danger of being utterly ruined, but even now have suffered severely from dust and want of care. Once a year these trophies of palmier regattas are brought to light for a few hours, and then returned to be lost for a year, save to some inquisitive student who may stumble upon them in their exile...
...SUFFERER," who reckons up his troubles by the yard, complains to us of the noises that disturb the college precincts sometimes till mid-night; and we heartily concur with him in longing for a cessation of the various shouts, cat-calls, snatches of popular melodies, the repetition of men's names in loudest tones from distant buildings, and, not the least annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying...
...speaking of military drill he says: "Are we never going to wake from the delusion that various pursuits and occupations which war rendered necessary more than ten years ago are proper ingredients in a life of settled peace...