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...CROWNINSHIELD.[The writer of the above seems to be laboring under a misapprehension. The crew are now using the English system in so far as their knowledge of that system and the climate of this country will allow...
DEAR JACK,- I find that I have an excellent opportunity to pass a few months in Europe; and as I never allow opportunities of this sort to slip by, I am going to sail next week. As this, then, is probably the last letter that I shall write to you for some time, I shall venture to devote it to a subject which may not be of immediate interest to you at this moment, but which certainly will occupy a great deal of your time when you have penetrated a little deeper into the mysteries of college life. I refer...
...Permitted to assemble once more with the hearts we fondly cherish, allow me to tender my best wishes for all the pleasant influences which this day's association present, and for the cheerful faces I see around me . . . . We feel that the gorgeous triumphs of Rome would bashfully gaze upon our enchanting May-day celebration...
...chop so much ice would be a task of great difficulty. Our tiles, secured after so much exertion, might have been left in the beds where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again by the action of the elements. Municipal laws allow a person twenty-four hours in which to have the sidewalks belonging to him cleared. It would be well for us, apparently, if some higher power looked after those whose business it is to see that we have terra firma to walk...
...regulation that seems to me unnecessary. I do not propose that Seniors should have three courses instead of four required of them. Some number must be prescribed, and perhaps, in most cases, four is none too many. But the regulation should be made elastic, so to speak. It should allow discrimination in particular cases, making a special regulation, if necessary, in each case. The Senior with four electives is required to have an average of fifty per cent on them all at the end of the year. This does not imply thorough work; and if any one desires to take...