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...solace themselves at drug-stores, etc., it might, after all, be not a bad plan to adopt the suggestion of one member of the faculty, and allow beer or ale, as at English universities, to be added to the bill of fare, especially, also, in consideration of the vile quality of drinking water provided at the hall. But all this would be superfluous, for we are quite assured that the writer's insinuations are base slanders. But the suggestion as to the need of reform in providing better service and food for students in case of sickness is worthy...
...dealt with by the courts, but it concerns every man who respects his college, to remember that it is a public misfortune to feed the prejudice against colleges as nurseries of disorder, extravagance, and dissipation." An editorial on the same subject in the current Frank Leslie's is too vile and violent to deserve an answer...
...York Times probably has some good reason for saying that "the Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen...
...From vile conditions
...love is worth a world of such vile things...