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...been a much disputed point among business men whether an extended course of study such as can be obtained by attending any well established college is, in the main, a proper training for a man who intends to make business his vocation in after life. Many arguments, pro and con, have appeared in the press, in all of which the great mass of discussion has centered about the one point, is, or is not, a highly educated man fit to devote his time and attention to the trivialities of any occupations outside of the professional? Many are convinced that...
Time has introduced modifications in some of these features, but, however changed, they still remain the only essential con-comitants of the parade. The custom of parading was started in 1868-the campaign of Grant and Seymour. The college, as in all subsequent processions, went with the Republicans. Unfortunately for the antiquarian, however, the record of this procession is very incomplete. The reporter for the college paper was seized with a mental prostration while marching, and was unable afterwards to give a good account either of himself or of the procession. Notes taken by him on the march were...
...college paper, "were lined with beautiful young ladies of Boston's first families;" and they greeted the procession with every demonstration of approval. Sixty-five handkerchiefs, one black shawl, and various pieces of hats is the current Crimson's estimate of the more tangible marks of maidenly favor con ferried. This procession of '80 was The largest and best organized of any student parades up to the present time...
...days ago the freshmen and sophomores of Columbia College negated in one of the old-time cane rushes which custom alone authorizes. For some years President Barnard has strongly objected to the continuance of this noble custom, and con sequentially an order was promulgated forbidding all rushes on the college grounds. Notwithstanding this definite order, the members of '88, on Wednesday last, appeared in the campus with a large came in their midst. No sooner were they sighted by one of the sophomores than all the members of that class within call made a rush for the daring freshies...
...three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...