Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...paper which enjoys so high a reputation for intellectual and philosophical eminence as does the Advocate will, in all probability, regard with silent contempt any suggestions made to it by so insignificant a person as a contributor to the Crimson. But I cannot refrain from closing my letter with the remark that a paper that desires to have any influence upon public opinion ought to endeavor to maintain some reputation for accuracy; and that if such a paper feels called upon to find fault with a body of men who are at least the social and intellectual equals...
...custom of long standing. The President assures them that the custom is not an old one, and there the matter stands. Considered purely in the light of an affair between the President and a society of limited membership, it is not a question to be discussed in a College paper; but there are many persons who consider that the matter - somewhat trivial in itself - nevertheless affects the relation between undergraduates in general and those who govern them. It is put beside several other incidents of a similar nature, and derives, in consequence, an importance which it would otherwise lack...
...from many sources, while lengthy - not to say heavy - refutations of its sentiments have been meditated by several persons. A feeling of compassion for the readers of the Crimson has also moved us in this matter. It has always been the desire of the editors of the paper to leave its columns open to the discussion of any subject in which a majority of undergraduates felt an interest. However excellent a thing Persian poetry may be in itself, it is not the prevailing topic of conversation in Cambridge. Apart from the discussion of Persian poetry the questions which this controversy...
THIS week we are the happy recipients of the three Yale publications. The Lit. contains the Junior prize oration, - a comparison between Webster and Sumner, which is very well carried out. It is decidedly the best paper in the magazine, though the others are good...
...Courant is much troubled because knickerbockers have made their appearance here. It reprovingly remarks that "Cambridge men have now the reputation of affecting the swell," and tells us, in another column, that in New Haven "three-and-a-half-inch paper collars are all the rage...