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...view of the changes proposed for the college base-ball league. From information gleaned from private sources we had been led to suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than...
...very gratifying to note that the custom of hazing is rapidly losing its hold here. The course of the present sophomore class has generally been very commendable in respect to that, and should '86 in turn frown upon that time-honored, though barbarous custom, Yale would forever afterwards be relieved from every reproach from that source...
EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD: I have no doubt but that your readers have had a surfeit of Memorial, but there is one suggestion that I should like to make. It will probably seem to many decidedly unconservative, and many will perhaps frown upon it as nonsensical. What I propose is nothing less than that ale or beer be allowed at dinner. The arguments usually advanced against the introduction of this healthy drink at Memorial are perfectly ludicrous. It is silly to suppose that men would for an instant so far forget their self-respect as to drink to excess...
...That will do," interrupted Mr. William Blue, with a savage frown. "That is too tragic for me; and, besides, there is nothing about the Scottish Highlands or the sea in it, and how, then, will you ever be able to utilize a yacht...
Chase from thy brow the lurid frown that lowers...