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...YALE COURANT...
...Record has grown envious of the Courant, and has started a new department, entitled...
...being printed on shoe-pegs. It ought to be sent to Vienna. It would carry off the first premium for the most complicated puzzle. We recognize it, however, by the design of an auger-hole between two lines of mashed bugs at the head of the first page. - Courant...
...Yale Courant of this week compliments our Harvard poets in a style their modesty will not suffer us to quote; but we are surprised our Yale friends can have any doubt as to the locality of the Pierian Spring from which they draw their inspiration. It is a well-known fact that the great poets of all ages have been poor; and have been driven to the Muses by starvation. Nothing is so conducive to poetic thoughts as an empty stomach; genius becomes more active and more ethereal at the absence of bodily nutriment. In after ages men will point...
What more could we desire! The literary merit and exterior appearance of our humble publication both appreciated! And what is still more gratifying, the comments elicited are both peculiarly characteristic of the paper from which they emanate. Each journal praises that of which it is most appreciative. The Courant, the man full grown, with his reasoning and aesthetic faculties fully developed, commends, with dignified discrimination, the beauties of thought and diction; while the little Record, with all the freshness and simplicity of a child conning its first picture-book, regards not the matter, but admires, with enthusiastic delight, the beautiful...