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...years ago, for many things done then by lawyers are now performed by others. The young lawyer must experience many years of patient waiting before he can hope for success, but if he employ these years of waiting in a profitable manner, if he keep brain, eye and ear alert and act always in an honorable manner, success will surely crown his efforts...
Freshmen should be on the alert against fraudulent peddlers who are beginning to swarm about the buildings...
...taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics can best be gathered, short of the verdict of the polls, by knowing what the students think. Thus, if this year's college statistics be compared with those of earlier years, it is obvious...
...trap, and, while on his way to the railroad station, was seized by some freshman and driven seven or eight miles into the country, and there left to get back as best he could. The freshmen are elated at the success of this manoeuvre, and are on the alert for the next step of the sophomores...
...second of the Saturday afternoon athletic contests at Harvard last week, only two contestants appeared for the shot and pole-vault."- Yale News. Yale men are on the alert for any seeming indifference in our athletics...