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...doubtful whether the record of candidates for Harvard from any school is better than that of those entering this year from the academy. The five candidates were awarded sixteen honors, - an average of more than three honors to each. - [Phillipian, (Andover...
...Harvard ('86) correspondent of the Phillipian, says: "The thing which is the strangest to our 'freshman understanding' is the absolute freedom. After leaving Andover we hardly know what to do with ourselves, unless we hear the quarter of eight bell strike, to warn us to our rooms. Another change which, though strange, is pleasant, is the step from Andover clubs or boarding-houses to the magnificent dining-hall at 'Memorial.' I say 'magnificent,' begging all pardon for speaking differently from Clarence Cook in his article published in the North American Review...
...Varsity and the Record this time. The bright, chatty, school-girl air of Lasell Leaves is very pleasing, and puts reader and editor on a friendly footing at once. But we would not imply that this favorite paper is deficient in articles of real merit. As to the Phillipian, we would beg leave to remark that when it calls a writer in the Exonian a "consummate fool" and "an egregious ass," it does a very contemptible thing, unworthy of amateur journalism, which has, hitherto, for the most part been free from vulgarity, at least...
...complains of college indifference. This was a standard subject for Harvard papers about three years ago, but we suppose the evil has just reached Wisconsin. Hor&ae Scholastic&ae is the most pretentious of the papers from the preparatory schools, and has the most literary merit. The Exonian and Phillipian are well printed, and are good representatives of their respective schools. The Vindex should have a few editorials. Its athletic news is unusually good...
...Phillipian is pervaded by common-sense. The profits of the paper for the past year have been devoted to putting a stained-glass window into the Great Hall of Phillips Academy. Here is an example for college papers to follow, - when they make money...