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...have received the prospectus of a new college paper, the Columbia Spectator, which will be the "official paper of Columbia College." It is to be of the same size as the Advocate and the Crimson, and it will alternate with the Acta Columbiana, thus giving the Columbia students two papers a month. We wish the new paper all the success which its prospectus anticipates, - and that is a great deal...
...Yale treated the affair in a perfectly cool and proper way, but the Cornell Era seized the opportunity of indulging in some of that ungentlemanly bluster of which it is so fond. We do not doubt that the challenged universities acted without any mean or unworthy motives. - Acta Columbiana...
...Acta Columbiana comes to the rescue of the Freshmen who are unable to relieve their overcharged spirits by singing the old stand-by "Bingo," because no rhyme for eighty can be found. It proposes the following classical substitute...
...Acta Columbiana has a correspondent in Princeton who has but one trait that is praiseworthy. He is modest, although his command of the English language is limited. He fills five columns with trivial events of life at Princeton, and concludes: "I hope that those who have a poor opinion of the College from reading this letter will lay the blame to the writer." We shall take him at his word...
...compliment the Acta Columbiana on its critique of Tennyson's "Queen Mary." It is with regret that we notice that the writer thereof is evidently not in the editorial department; for we read, among other book reviews, that "a book of poems which have appeared in the Harvard Advocate is soon to make its appearance. From what we have seen of Harvard poetry we judge that it will be a work of considerable merit, and hope that the edition of the Advocate intend to have some of their exchanges with copies...