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...hear sad news from Princeton. The schoolboy spirit seems to be rampant, and the time honored quarrels between Freshmen and Sophomores, which were stopped for a time, have been renewed with real Princetonian ferocity. On the evening of the 18th a number of Freshmen entered a Sophomore's room, and after tying the inmates to their chairs, shaved their heads, and then beat an orderly retreat. They were pursued by the irate Sophomores, when released by their friends, and a combat ensued. Pistol-shots were exchanged, and one of the Sophomores was wounded in the thigh. Dr. McCosh...
...would cause us equal surprise and pleasure to see a number of the Princetonian in which there was not an elaborate defence of the President and Faculty of Princeton College, in answer to a charge made by some unfortunate New York daily. The last number contains the usual two columns of scorn, directed, this time against the Tribune...
Speaking of the game, the Princetonian says...
YALE'S claim to the foot-ball championship is disputed, and with good reason, by Princeton. Says the Princetonian: "This fall, we have beaten Harvard and Columbia, and played a drawn game with Yale. Yale has not played Columbia, refused to meet Harvard, and had one drawn game with us. This gives us two victories, to none for Yale; and on this record we can and do claim the championship for 1877. It is true that Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia last year; but this fall their team has not won a match from any of these colleges; hence...
...Princetonian, in a paragraph on the Packer Quarterly, completely forgets the ordinary courtesy that one paper owes to another. We heartily approve of criticism; we ourselves intend to criticise, and are willing to be criticised in return. But criticism does not mean simply giving an opinion; it means also giving grounds for that opinion. We quote from the Princetonian...