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...Professor Flint opened the proceedings with prayer. For a minute or two the professor was inaudible, the shouting and disorder continuing unabated. When there was silence to some extent, the various clauses in the prayer were greeted with "Hear, hear," "Oh, oh," and the prayer, "Cause our university to flourish in the future," was received with loud cheers. Prof. Kirkpatrick then presented the gentlemen upon whom it had been agreed to confer the degree of LL. D.; but his remarks were inaudible, owing to the uproar. The ceremony of capping, performed by the lord justice general, as chancellor...
...that lacrosse has made its debut under such favorable circumstances, there is no doubt that next year will see it an established branch of athletics at Yale. It is quite possible that cricket will also, another year, be pushed forward. If lacrosse can flourish here, there is no earthly reason why cricket should not be under taken as successfully, since it is in all respects a more scientific and interesting game. In this connection it may be interesting to note that while Columbia has repudiated her lacrosse team, her representatives at cricket lately defeated, by a score...
There is so little besides study going on at Wellesley that gossip and groundless reports flourish finely. If it were not for concerts and lectures we should feel like the Sleepy Hollow people, yet without their contentment and repose...
...said of the best of us all? . . . The Student and the Athenoeum pursue their straight-forward ways, and represent public opinion at Amherst and Williams very creditably. . . . We learn from the Tablet that Trinity is to have a new paper, the Ivy, which will probably be green and flourish. The Niagara Index is on the war path, and scalps the 'Varsity and the Record this time. The bright, chatty, school-girl air of Lasell 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...
...press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying that there is a great deal of poetry, better than...