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...event of the coming week will be the junior hop. It is given annually to the junior class by the members of the secret societies. Of these societies I will say more in the next letter. The hop draws many visitors to the town, most of them ladies, as there are hardly enough in Ann Arbor to supply partners for the devotees of the dance...
What was said in the first part of this letter about the dulness of Hanover at this time should be construed as meaning socially, and in no wise affecting the beauty of the place. For, although it has a much more splendid beauty in the summer, yet even in the middle of the winter it has a cold, still charm that endears it very much to the student of a pedestrian turn of mind, who starts off early in the morning, if possible, and tramps all over the country, finding substantial support in the good old cider and cold meals...
Senator Allison, chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations, has received a letter from the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. saying his company has no intention to make a claim for compensation for courtesies extended to the late President and his family or to the government...
...beneath the dignity of our ex-president, the Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne. We had supposed that hostilities between the college and Mr. Chadbourne would cease on his withdrawal from office, but it seems, with characteristic spleen, he has chosen to revive the feud by writing to the press a letter slandering Williams in a most ungenerous manner. Great indignation is felt here among faculty and students, and must everywhere be felt among the alumni and friends of the college against Mr. Chadbourne for this action. The cause for this sudden outburst of malice is unknown, but the general belief here...
...matter is causing considerable excitement here, and may call forth a reply to his letter. The report has been current among the papers that Williams students broke up an entertainment here, and were so disorderly at one given in North Adams, that the police were called in. Both of these reports are fabrications, and utterly false...