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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Sunday Times has an interesting letter from its Paris correspondent, on the manners and customs of French students, from which we extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his books at second-hand in the old bookstores, or along the quays. . . . The Latin quarter is always represented by a Radical in the parliament, and most of the students are ardent Republicans. Unlike the students of Germany and the United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus...
...They would like you as one of their student traders, and your order for some sort of a garment, if only a trouser, would be appreciated by them and prove a satisfaction to you. These goods are immediate in style." - [Extract from a tailor's circular about college...
Here is a brief extract from Mrs. Livermore's lecture on "The Boy of the Period:" "He comes into the world occupying a position such as no boy ever occupied before. He feels very speedily all the goldenness of the place he occupies. He intends to be wealthy and successful. If he does not see his way clear to the top-most position at the outset he cuts loose and goes West. We have so much of wealth and pleasure that the boy's appetites and pleasures are unduly stimulated, and before he is aware of it they master...
...noticed in your edition of the 18th inst., an extract from one of the Harvard publications, referring to the wearing of Oxford caps by Tufts students. The anxiety of the writer for the good name of Harvard is praiseworthy. It would have been well if H. U. students in times past had had a like regard for it. The disgraceful performances in Boston theatres, and other similar affairs, in which Cambridge students have played a conspicuous part, have rendered it unnecessary and almost impossible, for Tufts students, or any body else, to sully that "good name," which has been...
...Extract from Mayor Fox's address last Monday...