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...prominent journal has recently published a sarcastic article on "Harvard slang" tending to show that although we are versed in many strange tongues and, strange to say, even in our own, we never speak in any of them, but express our ripest ideas for the most part in the questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal...
...meeting of the Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly with Harvard, but although she has not at present so many undergraduates as that institution...
Yale has met with a repentant thief. The following note was left with a bundle of clothing at a door in Farnham. "December twelve, dere sur, i send back your clothes, i took them last nite. i never stole nothing before, i feal so bad i never will steel again...
...rest of the university men. This system works admirably among our Swedish brothers, and it would seem to recommend itself to favor among students in American universities. Nothing can be more pleasant than acquaintance with men from one's own state or city, and frequently the acquaintance would never be made unless by some such method as this...
...idea is, of course, an excellent one and has often been pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive...