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...Francisco Post contains a lively account of Oscar Wilde and the freshmen, written by a Harvard student in a private letter home...
...special meeting of the National Rifle Association was held in New York yesterday afternoon. A letter from the British Rifle Association was read, offering to send a team to this country this year if a return match at Wimbledon were guaranteed. A cablegram accepting the proposition was sent, fixing the time for the match here in September...
...Everett of Adams Academy says of John Fiske, the eminent expounder of Herbert Spenser (according to the Detroit Every Saturday), that while in college he once wrote an article on Mr. Spenser's theories, which, being sent to England, drew forth from the philosopher a very flattering letter of thanks to Mr. Fiske. "Consequently," said Mr. Everett, "he has muttered 'Herbert Spenser' ever since...
...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 are willing to do almost anything to put Harvard off her guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From a letter from Yale to the New York Tribune of Feb. 20, we learn that "the boating men of Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never brighter. Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale...