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...last issue of the Courant contains two full-page illustrations of the boat-races at Yale. Perspective is unknown to the Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than...
While in the matter (not manner) of illustrations, the Courant copies the Lampoon, its items, entitled "Yalensicula," flavor strongly of the Boston Transcript. The imitation in this case is more successful; if the Courant's illustrations are not nearly so good as the Lampoon's, its items, in style and taste, are almost as bad as the Transcript...
...uplifted" instead of "unuplifted," which spoils not only Wordsworth's meaning and metre, but the argument to illustrate which the writer uses the lines. The Yale Lit. is really very interesting; we must not judge of Yale from the Courant and Record. On the whole, college magazines are not nearly so objectionable as college papers...
...college paper can be excused, so long as it is original and has promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator. The thought being the only creditable part of the "The Flower and the Cloud," in the last Yale Courant, and that belonging to its original author, we can see no possible object in its publication...
...serpent's tooth"! See what returns the Advocate gets for its kindness and condescension: "The Advocate of October 5th fills up about a column and a half of itself from our last issue. If it would be any convenience, we will send up the type next time." - Yale Courant...