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...should infer from a few remarks in the current Brunonian that hazing in a mild form is still more or less prevalent at Brown University. We suppose the Brunonian will object to our terming the practices "hazing," and in truth the word "roughing" would come nearer to expressing the idea in the mind of a college man. From the article in question, it seems that it has been a custom more or less prevalent among the different classes, for the sophomores to indulge in such practical jokes upon the freshman as to sell them seats in the chapel or hymn...
...would be hard to extend the reproach for such narrowness to the university itself. The good people of Cambridge proper, and of course more particularly of the outlying districts of the town, it must be said, take a very passive interest in all that concerns the college and the current of college thought. Between the icy embargo of its withered aristocracy and the nonchalant indifference of its more vital plebes, in this respect there is little to choose. Harvard University has become cosmopolitan. The city of Cambridge remains provincial...
...practical force which reach their highest development in such a city as New York. On every side there is contact with that which is real and positive and pressing. That contact exercises an imperceptible but a no less substantial influence. Those who are upon the surface of the current float with the current without effort or motion for themselves. That kind of mental training which aids most the future career, frequently does not come from books or from the teaching of professional instructors. It is acquired as the child learns, from observation, intuitively. Such advantages pre-eminently exist...
...current number of the Advocate begins the nineteenth year of its existence...
...current Manhattan contains an excellent illustrated article on Princeton College...