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...base ball mania has attacked the young ladies of Bridgeton Academy. They have organized two nines and selected their ball grounds. At present the question of uniforms is the all-absorbing topic...
...current number of the Manhattan magazine is by far the best number that has yet appeared. the principal articles are "Edwin Booth," by H. C. Pedder; "Literature and Science," by Matthew Arnold; "Recent Tendencies in American Journalism," by E. V. Smalley; "One View of the Chaucerian Mania," by Kate Sanborn; "Jasper Francis Cropsey," by W. H. Forman. Julia Hawthorne contributes a short story, and Edgar Fawcett continues his novel. The number is well illustrated throughout, the frontispiece being a portrait of Edwin Booth...
...ball delivered, instead of, as now, on every fair ball in succession. This rule has never yet been tried. In regard to the throwing, the past season's experience has shown that it is almost impossible to prevent the high delivery, especially in view of the prevalence of the mania for a swift delivery. The pitching problem is one not easy to solve, but it is about time that the batsman should not be placed at such a disadvantage...
...mortar-board and gown mania has again broken out. This time it is the freshman class at Cornell that is afflicted...
...Western colleges-a mental malady which seems most frequently to result in the strange delusion on the part of the sufferer that he is being abused by somebody or other, and that the utmost vigor and rigor on his part is called for to repel all attacks. A curious mania for "strong writing" seems always to be co-existent in the college papers of the institutions where this sad disorder flourishes. We cannot affect to explain this fact either. For example there are the two papers we have mentioned-both seemingly smitten with this mysterious affliction...