Word: exonian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret that the associate press have so grossly misrepresented the late disturbance at Exeter. The Exonian gives, in substance, the following account: About one-fourth of the whole number of students in the Academy, wishing to express their disapproval of the action of the Faculty in removing two young men from the Academy, and in expelling one more of their number, went around to the professors' houses at night and gave a tin-horn serenade. After the serenade some persons who probably were not in the Academy went to the houses of two of the professors and broke some glass...
...Leaves is very pleasing, and puts reader and editor on a friendly footing at once. But we would not imply that this favorite paper is deficient in articles of real merit. As to the Phillipian, we would beg leave to remark that when it calls a writer in the Exonian a "consummate fool" and "an egregious ass," it does a very contemptible thing, unworthy of amateur journalism, which has, hitherto, for the most part been free from vulgarity, at least...
...means that there is work ahead. We cannot afford to lose what we have won." The Sun that visits Cornell daily is disposed to be a little obscured by clouds, we fear; and the Era does not continue in brotherly love . . . It is a pleasure to praise the Exonian, one of the most modest of all our exchanges, and one of the best. It is published weekly by the Exeter Academy, and we may be pardoned for preferring it over many more pretentious sheets hailing from a "University...
...Round Table complains of college indifference. This was a standard subject for Harvard papers about three years ago, but we suppose the evil has just reached Wisconsin. Hor&ae Scholastic&ae is the most pretentious of the papers from the preparatory schools, and has the most literary merit. The Exonian and Phillipian are well printed, and are good representatives of their respective schools. The Vindex should have a few editorials. Its athletic news is unusually good...