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HARVARD is the Fifth Avenue of American colleges, Yale the Broadway. - Ex. And Vassar the Maiden Lane. - Miscellany. And Princeton the Rotten Row. - Acta...
...STRONG demand in favor of co-education has thrown open the doors of many of our universities and colleges to women, and the college press, thinking it a poor rule which will not work both ways, is insisting that Vassar admit men. Hear! Hear! - Chronicle...
...story, "Rebecca's Tendency," in the Vassar Miscellany for April, can hold its own beside any short story in the current magazines. The Miscellany is to be found in the Harvard Union Reading-room, on the magazine table...
...Vassar Miscellany.We dare not attempt, within our limited space, to boast of dealing justly by the three "literary" magazines, - the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Yale Lit. We dare not award the palm of superiority to any one, when all are so excellent. But the whole system of such undergraduate "magazining" seems to us radically wrong, and therefore are we no impartial judge. The Review publishes more good poetry; the Yale Lit. excels in literary criticism, Notabilia, and Portfolio; the Nassau inclines both to philosophy and to legendary matter of a ghostly sort, induced, as the Acta would...
...come face to face with her, I should forego the pleasure; for I should certainly detect the mechanical apparatus of her existence. Detection would be death to her, and my conscience would then charge me with murder; for, though she is not life, Miss Ffrench is wonderfully life-like. - Vassar Miscellany...