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College Days (Ripon, Wis.) is no "tuppenny" sheet. Witness the following extract from the first poem...
...first number of the Magenta there was given an extract from an article by T. W. Higginson in the Scribner for January, proposing the plan of a Graduate Scholarship, to be open to applicants from every college in America. The Nation of February 20, in its customary tone of ignorant ridicule, throws cold water on the scheme, and severely criticises the author of the article in Scribner. The writer in the Nation grants that "liberally endowed and carefully administered scholarships are among the most efficient attainable means of higher education in our land," but thinks there would be great practical...
...been so often beaten because they have been good scholars, implying that boating men are, as a rule, poor scholars. Every one having much acquaintance with oarsmen knows that such is not the case. Some of the most prominent boating men at Harvard have been high scholars. The following extract from the Pall Mall Budget of February I, 1873, also goes to prove that workers in the boat are not always idlers in the study...
...review of President Eliot's Report in our last issue, we gave an extract showing his opinion of the present system of compulsory attendance on recitations. We give below an abstract of an article written by Dr. McCosh of Princeton College, maintaining the opposite view...
...with no ordinary feeling of surprise that members of the College will hear of the unsettled condition of the Divinity Library, discovered by the following extract from the report of the Librarian, Mr. Jennison. Speaking of the books, he says: "Some have been wickedly stolen; the most have been clandestinely borrowed. Students and others residing in Divinity Hall, and perhaps graduates not resident, have sometimes a feeling in reference to this Library (a vague presumption of right or property in it) by which they may be led, when opportunity offers, to take away books contrary to rule and without permission...