Word: courante
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...ignorance which both the Record and the Courant display in speaking of "Mr. James Cook" (meaning Rev. Joseph Cook) becomes truly remarkable when we consider that New Haven is the seat of the Yale Theological Seminary, and the place where the New-Englander is published, and that Mr. Cook, besides having passed two years at Yale, is one of the most powerful supporters of the theological views which both the seminary and the magazine represent...
...Courant rejoices over "four new rails in the Sophomore fence, three in Junior, and four in the Senior." Yet all is not joy. The Monday morning lectures of last term have been replaced by recitations. The Record attacks the change on the ground that it encourages Sabbath-breaking in order to prepare the recitation; and the Courant thinks that "the scholastic merits of a lecture are never clearer than after a Sunday's rest, and from such a date it always remains fondly vivid at annuals." We wish that words could induce the Courant to wrap itself in the mantle...
...Courant, in all its dignified and stately English, kindly pats on the back the Yale Lit., saying...
...taken the position for years held by the Courant, and will not hereafter advertise beer, wine, and ale shops. At least, so it says. We congratulate the Lit. on its moral reformation...
...anxious about the reputation of our poets. The Yale Courant quotes a few lines from the Oberlin Review, and then says: "Yet even this gem will have to yield the palm to 'A Comparison,' by A. D. F., in the Amherst Student." If A. D. F. can write a few more such morceaux the Harvard poets will have to look after their laurels. This morceau we give in full...