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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fifty per cent. of the past editors of the Harvard Crimson, are now engaged in journalism. - Tuftonian...
...must expect to lose slowly but surely her present position of importance. New York, however, will always be a great terminus, at least she will be on the line of travel between Europe and the great West. Although Harvard must envy Columbia for this, she can revert to the past and exclaim that a university in the midst of a large city, and influenced by the rush of business affairs and every-day strife, can never be the home of the deepest thinkers and the most attentive scholars. The very fact that Columbia is in New York may work untold...
...evening performance began at half-past eight o'clock, as the time advertised for beginning was 8.15 p.m. - thus allowing a decent delay for Fashion's sake. The Assembly Rooms were crowded at 8 o'clock and the vast audience were seated on the tiptoe of expectation, as may be said, waiting to learn the legend of the play...
...Princetonian came out on the 6th with a special eight-page issue at the time of the withdrawal of the senior board and also upon the completion of the eleventh volume. The excellence of the number, in both form and matter, does honor to college journalism. During the past year the Princetonian has printed 950 feet of reading matter in 100 copies...
Work begins again to-day. Not work alone however, for lucky dogs that we are, this last term of our college year is always a sweet springtide of happiness. The time of winter, of snow and hail, cold winds and frosts is all past. This Easter vacation has put a long distance between all that and the present fair days. Now come the delicious siestas after dinner under the trees of the yard, while we smoke philosophically and listen to the glee club. Now is the tennis, the ball games, the boating and the cool winds blowing into our open...