Word: nassaue
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Comments are unnecessary, for the Nassau Lit. declares, "We dare not indulge the hope to find the average Yale man a gentleman under any circumstances...
...wish to call to the notice of the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the stanza we quote this week from the Rugby Meteor. If they read this, and then ask themselves why they exist, we hope for the best result...
...Nassau Lit. contains some eloquent resolutions upon the death of the late Judge Elbert Herring, in which the deceased gentleman, who was more than ninety years of age, is eulogized for having "held many positions of trust, and reflected honor on the Cliorophic Society," - a local society of which he was a member while connected with the Princeton class...
PRINCETON has had such a revival, and the present condition of society there appears to be not unlike that prevalent in England during the earlier years of the Commonwealth. "Prayer-meetings," says the Nassau Lit, "are no longer dull, but fervid." The influence of religion is felt in the "recitation-room, where "spiritual interest .... transforms duty into pleasure." It is felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit...
PRINCETON, according to the Nassau Lit., still indulged in "cane sprees," which appear to be rough-and-tumble fights between the Sophomore and Freshman classes...