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Strikes still continue among the Western iron mills, with no prospect of a settlement...
...Ship Western Belle left Greenock on the 11th of April, commanded by Captain Frew. On the 1st of May she ran into an iceberg at night, smashing in her bows, and in 20 minutes afterward sunk. The captain and 13 of the crew lost their lives. May 2 six survivors were picked up, nearly frozen to death, and have been landed at Quebec...
...still, notwithstanding the substantial accord of spirit towards which all are tending, we cannot admit, as some of our Western friends would seem to wish to have us do, that the difference in degree in the comparative amount of instruction in the regular course of the larger universities, as Yale, the University of Michigan and Harvard, and in the smaller colleges of the West, is really inconsiderable. Each class works its own work, but it is mere pretence to claim that the work of both is equal. The mere statement of courses catalogued, of authors read and of subjects treated...
Several of our exchanges find it difficult to understand why Harvard should call herself a university. In speaking of the matter the Hesperian Student, published at Nebraska University, says that the difference between the courses of Eastern and Western institutions is so small as to be hardly noticeable...
...subjects that many of our Western exchanges delight to treat of are sometimes truly formidable. A curious and interesting list might be compiled on these attempts at literary greatness. "Women in Literature," "Patriotism as a Virtue," or "The Saracens in Europe," are truly subjects that would do honor to a Bowdoin prize essayist, but must fill the reader of a college magazine with dismay...