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...withdraw is the only check the student has on such board as was furnished during the first half of last year. Memorial Hall offers too many attractions to allow any considerable number of students to leave except for sufficient reasons; but, as experience has proved, nothing short of the actual desertion of the Hall is sufficient to secure necessary changes...
...information necessary to a correct understanding of the great financial, political, and social problems which public men are called upon to solve. Such information, however, we are left to pick out for ourselves; and since we are obliged, in order to get at the precious bits which are of actual use, to take and digest an elective course for the whole year, we get all that book knowledge which, when without the power of practical application, is the bane of college graduates; while, to acquire this power, we have no instruction at all. The most important part of our education...
...good reason why the actual state of things should not be accepted, and that freedom from recitations granted, which otherwise will, however much to our detriment, be taken...
...succeed must be written with some reference to what is said and done here, and it must at any rate carry with it the tone of the place. A few incidents founded on fact is not what we want. The forthcoming book is said to deal with actual occurrences to some extent, but if any Freshman ever induced another to drive a car into Boston by saying, "It will be just the jolliest lark," it is our good fortune to have escaped meeting him. The book, as a whole, may possibly be better than the extracts indicate, and it will...
...editorial column it laments a decline of interest - actual and pecuniary - in base-ball; it praises the heroism of Amherst students at some recent fires in the town, where the fire department appears to have been almost as inefficient as our own; and, finally, it vehemently attacks some of the same students for a nocturnal disturbance in the campus, which seems to have been like the "flare-ups" with which our Cambridge wags occasionally amuse...