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...struck, there is nothing for the purpose like an intellect trained at Yale." That has always been our opinion, and we are glad to find it thus boldly stated. . . . The current number of the Princetonian is one of the best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been forgiven for its wit at Princeton's expense. We are constantly obliged to quarrel with the taste and judgment of the Acta; nevertheless, we read and are amused, and welcome it gladly from week to week. . . . The Niagara Index is distressed at the condition of affairs in Oberlin...
LAST year the Acta Columbiana attempted to form an Intercollegiate Press Association, and invited the various college papers to assist in the organization. The Crimson at that time declined the invitation to attend the preliminary meeting, believing that the good to be derived from such an association was at best doubtful, and feeling that the business of getting out a college paper without interfering with regular studies and examinations is quite enough to occupy our time. These reasons seem to us no less cogent now than they were a year ago, and we therefore decline the renewed invitation...
...palm. We confess it is the only publication of the sort which we can read with interest; although, doubtless, the magazine form has many advantages. Princeton is still very bitter toward Yale on the championship question; the Princetonian accumulates quotations to prove the consistency of her position. The Acta Columbiana cheers for Yale, and one by one the colleges come into line on one side or the other; all of which is doubtless calculated to preserve good feeling. The Acta calls, for April 15, a meeting to organize an Intercollegiate Press Association, of which the "chief ends will...
COLUMBIA will have her laugh at Princeton, as the columns of the Acta show. And the Acta is very witty, and we have our suspicions that "the home of M'Cosh and malaria" is apt to be worsted in an encounter on paper...
...Acta Columbiana has several Harvard items, among others a list of "those trying for the Sophomore Crew," and something about substitutes on the 'Varsity, distributed among their own locals without any mention of the fact that they don't belong to Columbia. It must astonish Columbia Sophs. to find ten or twelve names of men they don't know down for their class crew...