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...with great pleasure that we call attention to an article in one of our columns taken from a Chicago paper. It is indeed flattering to have such homage part to Harvard students, and it may be the real feeling of many who profess to think otherwise. The young lady was evidently much surprised that she could travel alone out to the wilds of Chicago and Athol, and went prepared as some Europeans who expect to find Indians in Boston...
...ticket in order to purchase goods at the society's store. Of course, such an offence is nothing more nor less than deliberate fraud, and fraud, too, against the offender's own fellow students. However, such a case, from necessity, must be so rare an occurrence among those who profess to be gentlemen, that we but briefly call attention to it, before dismissing it from mind...
Harvard, though she does not relish the idea of measuring oars with us, in her challenge to a game of football, condescended to recognize Cornell in the athletic field. For the same reason that she is unwilling to row in the intercollegiate regattas, we profess, for the present, at least, a decided unwillingness to accept her challenge. Next fall perhaps will find us in a position to accept a challenge from Harvard, or any other college...
...seems like a strange contradiction that journals professedly religious and temperate should be the most prone to indulge in intemperate and preposterous charges against the morality of college life. A most absurd and unfounded slander upon Harvard students, charging upon them the grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech...
...grounds for his complaints will certainly be admitted by many fair-minded men who are familiar with the history of college affairs during the past few years. It is to the credit of these college organizations, as the Crimson curiously enough admits, that they are what they profess to be, in spite of favoritism and toadyism, though some of them are only so more or less imperfectly. Instances are demanded; they have supplied themselves, and cannot be wiped out by vehement editorials or indignant denials...