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...Testament from the Hebrew into the Greek. This brought about a series of troubles and slight revolts which finally led to the abolishing of all translation in the chapel. The services in the chapel were marked by some curious features. After morning prayer the president was wont to admonish the students and hear from them public confession of their delinquences. There are many instances of this. We find that "on Nov. 4, A-was publicly admonished in the college hall, and there confessed his sinful excess and his enormous profanation of the holy name of Almighty God. And he demeaned...
...seems that the invincible Daniel has been a great traveller since 1864, without having succeeded in getting beyond Cambridge. Succeeding Daniel comes W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. U. S. Army, 1866. Wendell Phillips, fresh from his anti-slavery work, writes his name with the same boldness as he was wont to speak...
...Acta.E. G. B. has also won a college celebrity by his verses, but he aims some what higher than is the wont of college poets. His fertile fancy has produced some very pretty lines of which a good specimen is his rendering of Banville's "Ballade of the Haunted Stream," which is, however, too long to quote. "Carl" has also written some very clever verses, but we can almost hear the crank squeak in some of his effusions. However, a tolerant kindness should be shown towards an editor of a fortnightly paper. The Argo has very well formulated its creed...
...justifiable collection, and after the next sifting how many of this collection will ever be read again? If it is necessary to offer any apology for the practice college men indulge in of writing verses, we can say that they do it for personal amusement and are wont to make their private anguish a burden to the public. At all events it is not meant to last, and is very to sure to attain its object...
...Bric-a-Brac, an annual publication of the junior class of Princeton. From cover to cover it is full of clever sketches and useful information on all departments of the college. The cover alone is very artistically treated and shows much of that talent which we have been wont to expect in each number of the Tiger. The first pages are devoted to a general catalogue of faculty and students, followed by lists of membership of the various literary organizations; then athletic records, clubs, commencement exercises and general Princeton news of note. Our account would give the impression...