Word: exonian
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Exonian bewails the present state of its finances, and hopes for better things in the future. Last term the editors were assessed one dollar and fifty cents each to make up a deficit. Exeter is taking great interest in her athletic sports this year...
...Exonian comes to us regularly once a week, and is always readable. This may be owing to its size, which does not allow of long articles on deep subjects, - but whatever the cause, the result is most agreeable...
...SENSIBLE writer in the Exonian suggests the substitution of laurel-wreaths for other prizes at athletic contests, but he does so half jokingly, and wisely remarks that he fears the change is too radical. Seriously, would it not really be more satisfactory; a wreath can at any rate be consigned to the waste-paper basket; whereas the hideous silver-plated monstrosities which are now the reward of prowess are not to be got rid of by any amount of ingenuity...
...Exonian is a weekly paper published at Exeter, and contains much news about that school. Perhaps when it is well started we may look for some articles of a literary character, which we miss in the first two numbers...