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...Courant for September 30 has a carefully written article upon college expenses. The writer asks, "Are students as a class extravagant? Is this extravagance increasing?" To answer these questions the following table has been prepared, showing the necessary expenses, covering board, tuition, room, fuel, and books, for every third year from '60 to the present time, as given in the Yale and Harvard catalogues...
...Courant complains of a lack of enthusiasm for the spring athletic contests at Yale; the same probable reasons for this failure are attributed as were before by us in the case of our spring meeting; namely, to the fact that the best athletes are engaged in the more important branches of baseball and boating, and are unable to devote their time to anything else. The highest jump was 4 feet 11 inches; the time of the mile run, 4.55 1/4, which was very good time; the hurdle-race was won in 19 sec., and the hundred-yards dash...
...Courant, as usual, criticises the Record severely...
However that may be, the Courant itself is not perfect. We were surprised, to put it mildly, when we opened the No. of June 17, and read the following announcement printed in large poster-like characters...
...Courant is much troubled because knickerbockers have made their appearance here. It reprovingly remarks that "Cambridge men have now the reputation of affecting the swell," and tells us, in another column, that in New Haven "three-and-a-half-inch paper collars are all the rage...