Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From this sketch some idea may be formed of the comfort and convenience which the Union affords. It seems to me that it is distinctly a step in advance of any thing that we have here, insomuch that it gives to virtually every one who can afford to pay the moderate fee of pound 1 a term (with no initiation fee), advantages offered by none of our institutions, except in part, and then to comparatively few. Having such a large revenue, the club is able to do more than any smaller association could attempt, in the way of enlarging...
...week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention to, impose an amount of work upon a student that, if thoroughly performed, would leave little or no time for anything else. Outside reading, theses, and hour examinations are not only recommended, but forced upon us to such a degree, that we are obliged to neglect other...
...Then here are some rugs which I got because I heard that carpets are not at all the thing; they are exactly like the real Persian rugs...
...there is any thing else that you don't know, ask a Sophomore...
...volume of vocal sound than has been heard in Chapel within our recollection. Furthermore, all must and do admit that the service would be made much pleasanter by a general participation in the singing. Can it be that anything so contemptible as the fear of not doing the "proper thing" can keep men from such participation? We cannot believe that such is the case. Since, then, we can sing, and since all of us would gladly have better singing, let us begin at once, and make the hymns something more than the performance of the gentlemen of the loft...