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We would advise ye local raker on the Sentinel to use a Wood's lock lever sulky or a fine toothed comb. Either are insured not to catch stale jokes or bad poetry.
The University of Texas is the latest sensation in the educational world. It has an endowment of over five million dollars and large land grants.
—In Albany Academy twenty per cent. of the students have taken Greek, and eighty per cent. English Literature and Rhetoric Sixty per cent. of the medals for English composition has gone to the Greek.
The girls of Rockford demonstrate the fact that women can do more than wield the broom--they can edit a paper. Their magazine is a monument to their honor. Its main strength is in its literary department. In the locals there is nearly always present a tinge of gossip, pleasant however.
Another name has been added to the long list of college papers, The Howard University Reporter. Its infant appearance is weakness personified. It may, however, develop into a good, healthy college paper We give you God speed. Prominent in its columns, we find the weather report of Richard Foster, an alumnus of K. S. U.
—Number one volume one of the Stephens Indicator, comes to us from the Stephens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J. Too much space is devoted to foot ball contests and college sports in general. The general make up of the paper, however, is good, and there is certainly no reason why it should not take and hold a high rank among college papers. We only wonder that such an enterprise was not started long ago.
The College Rambler has a good article on protection, in the January number. The writer shows that free trade is the natural condition of exchange; hence it devolves upon the protectionist to justify his interference with the course of nature further. The fact that an industry cannot be maintained in a community without a high tariff, is proof that it is not profitable for that community.
In the High School Index, Ann Arbor Michigan, Prof. Chas. Kingsley, of the Leavenworth high school, has a long article on the high school question. He shows in a very clear and forcible way just what the relation between the primary and higher school should be, and although the relations are often incomplete, nevertheless a strong community of interest exists. * * * We submit that the success and efficiency of any school system rests no more on abundant funds than on the fostering and directing care of a liberal and enlightened public sentiment.
De Pauw Monthly. That's the way it read; and although it had a familiar look we thought it a new exchange. But investigation proved it an old friend sailing under different colors. The monthly sings, not chants, the funeral dirge of Asbury. All honor to Mr. De Pauw in advancing the cause of the sciences and arts; but in this we cannot help seeing the exemplification of the psalmist when he sings: "Their inward thought is that their homes shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names." In justice to the many and noble sons of Asbury, Mr De Pauw should have been satisfied with the name of a particular chair, or an adjunct department, as endowers usually are.