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Yesterday morning the CRIMSON received the following dispatch...
...about Columbia and Yale colleges, as coming from reliable sources. We at once telegraphed to Yale, asking if there was any truth in the statements as printed. As no reply was received, we republished parts of the articles in question, making some editorial comment on them. Yesterday morning a dispatch came from Yale denying the statements in toto. But the articles had been read throughout the college, and the mischief was already done. We write this as an amende honorable to the colleges in question, due to them on account of this mischance, for which we can scarcely be held...
...news of importance of any kind shall be telegraphed at once to each of the papers in the association. The expense in these cases shall be borne by the paper receiving the dispatch...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...
...task of canvassing the college has been no easy one, but has been carried on rapidly and successfully. For this work the college is once more indebted to the Harvard Union, which has always shown energy and dispatch in taking up such investigations. This fall, no doubt the Union will afford us a few opportunities of listening to the political orators of Harvard College. It would be interesting to compare the result of the canvass just completed, with a vote in the Harvard Union after an exhaustive discussion of the relative merits of the two candidates for the Presidency...