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...question returns to us, then, What ought a Yale student of to-day to be? I answer, just what the Yale men of the past have been. He should be a man whose prime quality only and foundation of character is manliness, the sense of duty so all controlling that he is reacy for duty's call whenever and wherever it comes to him. That manly sense of obligation to God and men which puts work before pleasure and inspires the soul to meet with a spirit of a conqueror what is distasteful...
...what do you know of their financial matters?" I answer at once: In some cases, nothing, in some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...
...poetry, on the whole, is good. "Sunrise" is a charming bit of verse containing a very pretty, though by no means new idea. "An Answer," is a fairly good piece, the second stanza being by far the better of the two. Altogether, this number of the Advocate is more than unusually good...
...cannot but ask for an explanation. Doubtless a member of the upper classes would say: - "They are freshmen and so know no better. But as a freshman I dismiss this answer with the contempt it deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height...
...letter in answer to that of the Cambridge students which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON should be creditited to the London Punch...