St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-15

The New York Tribune serves this
notice on the democracy: "Iou may
not nominate the old ticket in lSS4 but
You are dead certain to have the old
luck" If that is the case the democrats
will elect the president and the repub-
licans will count him QUITS that what
the Tribune means Thieves generally
keep whist till the thing is DONE
springfield Republican.
\ NEW CONDITION FOR a COLLEGE
DEGREE.
Gov Butler might he conSoled for
the loss of his degree by the fact that
Harvard finds it necessary to establish
Il rule that hereafter all degrees are to
bc conditioned on right of the cor
poration to revoke them for .'riotous
conduct in the yard" According to
the Boston Advertiser '.the grade of
graduates having the most spare time
for commencement festivities is such,
that 10y four or five o'clock the college
yard is an unfit thoroughfare for la
dies, and becomes worse as the even
ing dccpens. The college authorities
have very properly determined to
break up this dcbauch. The wonder
is that they have allowed it to go on SO
long. - Springfield Republican.
BREAKING UP OF THE SOLID SOUTH.
The probabilities that the next pres
idcntial election will show that the
solid south is hopelessly and perma-
nently split are constantly increasing.
That the new movement for the reOr-
ganization of the republican party in
that section is well timed, and that the
conditions are favorable for its success,
is growing more and more evident,
and that the movement has grown be
yond the contempt of the bourbons is
Indicated by the suspicious silence
which their journals preserve concern
ing it. With reviving industrial
prosperity, with the increasing intro
duction and building up of manufactO-
rieS, with growing northern influence
caused by the influx of northern CAPT
tai, the most sagaciOus southern poll
ticians are beginning to realize that
with the same energy and foresight
displayed by southern republicans
which has been displayed by their
northern brethren, two or three states
hitherto democratic may be wrested
from bourbon control Boston Tray
eller.
GRADUATES AND COLLEGES.
Within the past ten or fifteen years
the character of college students has
visibly improved. There is less row.
dyism, less dissipation and more study
ing. If the boys have i'm
proved. the colleges have improved al
so. There have been in recent years
some unwise experiments made in the
way of introducing new features and
relaxing the severity of the courses of
study. but we believe it is fact that
in nearly all instances these mistakes
have been rectitied. In all the leading
colleges the curriculum has been stead
lily advanced to higher standards. The
requirements for admission have been
greatly increased, and the course of
study enlarged and broadened. The
tendency to abandon the old classical
course as out of date, which betrayed
itself in some quarters few years ago,
has been checked and all our older in
situations have wisely concluded that
the true course is not to abandon the
/ old. but adhere to that and add to it
whatever is best in the new. The
graduate of the period has had the ben
eft of this and comes out into life 50
much the better equipped for the work
before him New York Tribune.
The agent of the Massachusetts total
abstinence society called on Gov. Butler
for a contribution, the Other day, tell
ing him that it was customary for gov
ernors to subscribe something and