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...England 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...
...tobacco could be used "unless permitted by the President with the consent of parents and guardians and on good reason first given by a physician"? Or can any one conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, grain, oxen, cows, sheep," or even boots and shoes in the clean pages of his account book...
...inning. The seventh inning yielded one more inn, brought in by a hit, a steal, and two bases on a wild pitch. Harvard was blanked for six innings, and only twice got men to third. Rain stopped the game in the middle of the seventh, and made the score revert to the sixth inning. Morgan, Hurley and Young did good work for the home nine...
...editorial in a revert issue of the Yale News urging the freshman to show that they "possess the necessary amount of Yale sand," seems to us at least superfluous. The Yale foot ball game has been distinguished among college sports for its rather too sandy character. -[Vassar Miscellany...
...amount of money, by the Ellis bequest, which will eventually revert to the university for the endowment of professorships in the Medical School, after the subtraction of the bequest for scholarships, is estimated...