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...Acta Columbiana is yet to be found at the old stand. No Yale men need apply...
...Yale Courant is on its ear as regards the Acta; and when the Courant is in that condition, there is a pretty broad foundation under...
BECAUSE the Acta Columbiana published a satire upon New Haven in general, and the Yale Record in particular, the Courant and the News announce that hereafter they will not exchange with the Acta. We are not surprised that the Courant should make so foolish a move; but we had looked for better things from the News. It is too much like the childish, "I won't play with you." We sincerely hope that the Acta may not be obliged to suspend publication because of the determined hostility of Yale...
...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 say, by the atmosphere. But one reads these productions with a sense of dissatisfaction. Articles on weighty subjects, when published in a college paper, are compelled, for very lack of room, to be insufficient and fragmentary...
...football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News is after all our favorite, - a model which other colleges dailies would do well to imitate . . . Then Columbia is the very spirit of wit, - too apt, in the case of the Acta Columbiana, to degenerate into vulgarity. Of the Spectator, with its admirable illustrations, we wish to speak in terms of unqualified approval. It is suggestively humorous rather than broadly farcical; the little delicate touches that lighten the general effect are added to advantage. . . . The Orient (Bowdoin), Dartmouth, Athenoeum (Williams), Brunonian, and Student...