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“While there's Life there’s Hope.” XI. OCTOBER 26, 1893. No. 565. 28 West Twenty-Tuiro Street, New York, Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year,extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Keected contributions will be destreyed unless accompanied by a stamped anddirected envelope HESE are uneasy times for five young gentlemen, late of Princeton Col- lege, who recently indulged themselves in the luxury of having fun with a freshman, A grand jury of Jerseymen has frowned upon their exuberance, and proposes that they should be tried for assault and bat- d subjected to the awful penalties of Jersey law. If are the same young gentlemen who chased their man nd spent the night groping for his moist remains while he was comfortably abed in the house of a farmer, they must realize that their exertions have been thor- oughly unprofitable, and that the laugh i into a canal, altogether on them, had is bad enough; but to pay for the fun that was never delivered is baneful and disgusting in the extreme. To pay for the fun one has N signal contrast to these doings at Princeton is the contemporaneous treatment of the freshmen, on Bloody Monday, at Harvard. To the new-comers there a reception was given this year at the Sanders Theatre, which was adorned appropriately for the occasion with shrub- bery and greens. The Pre: dent of the University and the Mayor of Cambridge spoke kind words to them; resentative eminent rep- of the faculty, the alumni, and the undergraduates addressed them, and after the exercises cold nourishment: was administered to them in Memo- rial ‘Hall. When such things are doing in Massachusetts, it is not surprising that thrifty Jerseymen should resent the reluctance of the young Prince- ton tigers to lie down with such lambs as come into their fold. . . . ILLIAMS COLLEGE is a centenarian now, and Lire felicitates it on its hale and promising longevity. It is not a very big college, but size is not everything, as the man d_ by Saddle-rocks on the bill of fare and ordered Blue Points. It isa college of a worthy and useful species, and good of its kind; and in spite of the rapid development of the great unive it is, under Presi- dent Carter's rule, at least as prosperous and important as it Its future is as safe as its past, for if the educa should ever become dull, its situation is it can be run with assured profit as a No other college that Lire knows of has a ever was, tional business so felicitous th summer hotel. bow of promise with two such strings to it. HAT action, if any, the Senate will have taken by the time this issue of Lir teaches‘its readers, LIFE is not prophet enough to forecast. The ver Senators have “held up ” the gov- ernment, Their propo- sition is the simple and familiar one, “Your money or your commer- cial life!" It begins to look as though they would get our money. . . * HAT to do with the buildings in Jackson Park is still an unsolved problem. Has it ever been suggested to the meat princes of Chicago that they would make the finest lot of ice-houses the world ever saw ? IFE always used to think that the New York hackman was a knave. We hav both knave and fool, There never was a more deliberate and persistent murderer of the goose that lays the golden eggs. He has brought things to the pass where very few New Yorkers will patronize him if they can escape his usual extortion and frequent violence by patronizing any other mode of conveyance. The author- ities could stop these things if they would, but no one expects any such protection from a Tammany gov- ernment. The cabmen have votes and pulls; it is too much to expect that they should ever be punished so long of actual murder, If they knew their own business they would take into their own hands the prosecution of any of their brotherhood who imposed upon their patrons. By making the public their friend instead of their enemy they would largely increase their own opportunities to make money. as they stop short comicbooks.com