Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In the first place, it is a compromise between desire to try a change and fear of possible bad effects; and, as is usually the case with a compromise, it fails to give any sure test. Suppose that this plan works ill, it does not therefore follow that the other...
Who originated this mighty project we cannot imagine. It is worthy of a Gilmore; but between college journals there is so much more discord than harmony, that he would never have dared to make the attempt. However, the reasons given are too conclusive and overwhelming for us to raise our...
IN the first number of the Magenta there was given an extract from an article by T. W. Higginson in the Scribner for January, proposing the plan of a Graduate Scholarship, to be open to applicants from every college in America. The Nation of February 20, in its customary tone...
Mr. Higginson says that this scholarship will produce emulation between the high scholars or the colleges similar to that between the boat-crews at the Regatta; the Nation thinks this emulation would be a feature disastrous to the good effects of the system, and seems to entertain a very poor...
THE amicable relations which exist between the Advocate and the Magenta sorely annoy our belligerent friends at Yale. Besides the remorseful pangs which vice ever experiences in the presence of virtue, it must be extremely aggravating to find in all the exchanges, as they straggle in, after a notice of...