Word: things
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...With the election of Lincoln, and the secession of one southern state after another, the country saw that the beginning of the end had come at last. Men went to the front not because they were called on or because they had to, but because it was the one thing they wanted...
...then, quite unjust to hold the University at large responsible for this affair. There have been occasions within the last year or two upon which students have been rather careless with firearms, and generally obstreperous; but a timely warning has always done away with this kind of thing, and it can be said, to the credit of the undergraduates, that no firearms of any kind were heard after Saturday's game. There is, however, a distinction to be made between these small breaches of discipline and the painting of the statue. The latter is something with which the student body...
...been very helpful in bringing forward athletic reforms. The committee illustrates the true principles of athletics, in that it is laborious, but perfectly gratuitoys. Fundamentally, the Corporation regards the athletic interests an not the leading interests in University life. The enjoyment of college life, however, is a very important thing. We always want to think of the University as a seat of intense, pure enjoyment...
...best thing in the current issue of the Lampoon is the centre-page reproduction of a well-known weekly. There are a good many things in the rest of the number that should produce laughter in the average undergraduate, and pictorially it is pleasing. Of local hits-the natural province of the Lampoo, wherein it is mose successful,- there are several good ones,- "A Fast Life," is true to life or at least three mornings in the week. The "Foibles" of the Advocate are also well done...
Houghton, Mifflin and Company have just brought out a new book by Margaret Deland, entitled "The Wisdom of Fools." It is a series of short sketches of the lan Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors...