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...taking steps looking toward the realization of the project. It has since, however, come somewhat prominently before the college world, and now seems in a fair way of active discussion, and perhaps of tentative adoption by the more prominent publications of our colleges. The Williams Athenaeum, the Michigan University Argonaut, the Amherst Student and the Cornell Era, besides the Acta, are all ardent advocates and promoters of the scheme, and with such a representative backing it would seem as though a successful issue might be looked for in the matter. In its last number Forney's Progress (Philadelphia) commends...
...first number of the Michigan Argonaut, rival of the Chronicle, has been issued. It bears a handsomely, illustrated cover after the modern style of magazine decoration. In general character its first number does not seem to differ materially from the Chronicle except perhaps in some matters of local tone not perceptible to an outsider. Still it must not be judged by its first number. It seems to be somewhat less given to flippant frivolity than its rival, but a few ghastly specimens of Western humor, a la Danbury News, insist upon cropping...
...contest between the two factions at Ann Arbor in regard to Chronicle editors is becoming lively. The Chronicle editors answer the allegations of the Argonaut party in a counter-circular. Their address concludes: "Admitting for the moment that the action of the board was illegal: in that case there are legal means to obtain legal rights, of which presumably those who have consulted this "competent legal authority" are fully aware. Why then do they not use those means to obtain those rights, instead of seeking a doubtful vindication by the hazardous and expensive method of starting a new paper...
...hinted by our Michigan correspondent, in a recent letter, the late election of Chronicle editors at Ann Arbor has created so great dissatisfaction as to result in the founding of an opposition paper at the university. This paper will be called the Michigan Argonaut, and its issues will commence with the beginning of the school year next fall. A preliminary circular has been issued which gives some rich developments in regard to the status of affairs at Ann Arbor. It is claimed that one hundred and thirty-two members of the Chronicle association were disfranchised illegally. Excited meetings have since...