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...will still continue to row; and on this account, the riverside ought not to be entirely deserted by the students for several weeks to come, not till the university and freshman crews have taken their last row on the Charles and are on the way to New London. The staunch supporters of boating and all those at all interested in the progress of these crews henceforward ought to make as frequent trips as possible to the boat-house, on pleasant afternoons, and lend encouragement by their presence there...
...latest number of the Phillipian of Andover Academy. From this it appears that the feeling in favor of Yale, formerly so prevalent in that school, has changed during the last few years and that if Andover continues in her present course she will soon be numbered among the staunch supporters of Harvard. That the editors of the paper themselves are willing to admit this new tendency is a sure guarantee that such a change is taking place. Only two years ago the students of Andover Academy hooted the freshmen of '85 who had beaten them at football, and the Phillipian...
...York Tribune, staunch protectionist, makes a violent personal attack upon Prof. Samner of Yale for his free-trade heresies, terming his conduct "unworthy of Yale...
...which have given him a wide reputation in these departments. His book, entitled "American Political Economy," which was published in 1870, is perhaps the best theoretical exposition of the doctrine of protection that has ever been presented. While he was a lecturer in Political Economy he was always a staunch supporter of protection to American industries. Professor Bowen now confines himself to Philosophy, and the popularity of his courses attest his success and the esteem in which he is held by the students...