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While in college, Macaulay developed a strong taste for political debate, and he was never happier than when able to find some one willing to engage in a fair tilt-at words on current political questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACAULAY AT CAMBRIDGE. | 3/28/1884 | See Source »

Perry. Belmont, one of Harvard's favorite sons, has again been bearding a Congressional lion in his den. Very melodramatic accounts are given in the newspapers of a recent tilt between Mr. Belmont and A. S. Hewitt in the Foreign Affairs Committee room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/25/1884 | See Source »

...such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECRET SOCIETIES IN COLLEGES. | 2/6/1884 | See Source »

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