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...rubbers have worn out, and who now bring the bright point to view in all their writings. The most of these, it may also be remarked, pastured at Harvard. Having occasion recently to write to Mr. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, the great pioneer paper of the West, to obtain certain facts about college newspaper men, I learned from him that of the past Tribune staff whom he remembered, eleven were college men, and of the present staff, the business manager and eight others are college graduates. That certainly is a good showing,-though I must admit...
...January merit roll at West Point, Alexander, the colored cadet from Ohio, stood ninth in a class of one hundred...
...enter Harvard are totally ignorant of everything military except what they may have learned accidentally from the perusal of histories. This is a country averse to large standing armies. Consequently corps of well educated officers and military schools where men are instructed to become officers are wanting. West Point is scarcely able to turn out enough officers to command our present small shadow of an army. In time of trouble the nation will have to depend for the most part on leaders chosen from the more intelligent citizens. In this class the college graduate figures prominently and should in case...
Students on the west side of the college buildings are busy stuffing the cracks in the windows with cotton. [Ex.] Yale seems to be suffering from a cold...
...bill has been introduced in the house which provides for the establishing at West Point of a preparatory school for candidates for admission to the military academy...