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...beautiful, sweet mistress of us all. In her service Harvard has never counted any sacrifice too costly. Founded when Charles I. was King of England, this institution shared to the full the poverty and hardships in which the nation was cradled. When President Washington visited the College the whole value of the land, buildings, collections, and securities belonging to the President and Fellows was less than the sum of the bequests and gifts which have been paid to our treasurer in the single year since we last sat at these tables ($225,000), There were fewer students then than teachers...
...much more than balanced by the very rough water which came in answer to Yale's prayers; there was not a foul or an accident to detract from the brilliant success of the race as a race, and the relative positions of the two boats for the whole four miles kept the interest of the spectators at the highest pitch throughout. The race was won not by luck or by chance, but by the long practice and the severe training which the crew have kept up during the year. Each man on the crew deserves the thanks of the University...
...palace-car journey from Boston to St. Paul's, Minnesota, in which we learn that Buffalo is "a place of great commercial interest and a great entrepot for the grain of the West"; an abstract of the Eastern Question; and an article on "Reading and Observation"; the whole capped off by a very short editorial (on Class-Day Parts) and a few items. A college paper is meant for the college in which it is published, and its literary department, even if interesting, should not be allowed to encroach on the more important department of local news...
...Yale Courant is about as near our ideal of a college paper as any publication we know of. Often entertaining, never dull, full of articles which we can all read with pleasure, - articles full of life, - its locals pithy, its criticisms just, its whole tone manly, the Courant does honor to its editors and to the institution from which it comes." - Princetonian...
...above extract from the Courant language is used which would disgrace any sporting paper published, and we think that the Princetonian will now hardly care to stand by the whole of its commendation...