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...Oscar Wilde states that Niagara Falls are artistically correct, so they will not have to be reconstructed, and you need not be afraid of showing bad taste if you admire them. - [Post...
Oscar is pleased with Niagara. The lines do not suit him, but the coloring he considers intense...
...many of our smaller colleges seem to improve with every number. If a growing tendency to Courant-ism can be avoided, and the moral tone of college journalism can be steadily maintained, the outlook may be considered very promising. We beg leave to suggest that to ignore the Niagara Index, the Illini, and others of that ilk, would be a first step of some importance toward the desired...
...best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been forgiven for its wit at Princeton's expense. We are constantly obliged to quarrel with the taste and judgment of the Acta; nevertheless, we read and are amused, and welcome it gladly from week to week. . . . The Niagara Index is distressed at the condition of affairs in Oberlin, and the Review is disposed to resent the insults of its cotemporary, - very properly, as we think. But the Index can at least claim to be amusing, and what more can be said of the best...
After this little introduction, they all go on to smile upon those who have smiled on them, or to pour floods of weak sarcasm-and-water on the head of the Niagara Index. In spite of the general weak-mindedness of exchange editors, - a misfortume which is probably the result of having to read the college papers once in two weeks, - "collegiate journalism" has improved a great deal in the last two or three years. A few papers are silly, a good many are heavy, pretentious, or stupid, but there are only one or two left absurd enough to find...