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...paragraph in a Western newspaper led to the incorrect statement that Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, had expressed the opinion in a public address that the study of Greek and Latin is practically useless. The fact proves to be that he spoke only in condemnation of the compulsory study of Greek in our American colleges...
Since the rejection by the railroad commissioners of the original layout of the Hartford and Harlem railroad through the western part of the city, two amended routes have been surveyed and mapped by the company's engineers. Neither has been formally approved by the company, however, so that it is uncertain which the commissioners will be asked to approve. One of the routes has already been described. Within the limits of New Haven it runs mostly on the east side of West river, although avoiding the thickly settled portion of the western district whose residents rose up in such unanimous...
...ruin Yale's new playground. A knowledge of the danger which threatens the ground is confined to a few members of the association. The organization comprises many men of wealth and influence, who would doubtless make quite as determined a fight against this layout as the residents of the western district did. It is generally believed however that the opposition would not prove so effective in accomplishing the desired result...
...Western States...
...from our different colleges we find them to be conducted in many instances upon entirely different plans, and in their exchange columns are able to find many different suggestions as to how other papers should be carried on. We find that the tendency in our opinion, especially among our western college papers, is too much towards literary effort, that is too much space is frequently given for essays, orations, such productions as we listen to every week in our different class rhetorical exercises. In too many instances these labored productions prove tiresome and entirely without interest. Subjects are frequently chosen...