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...board for $4.50 a week. But what we want more that anything else is a change, and this can easily be afforded us without any undue expenditure. It is really remarkable the way in which Memorial seems to be bound to a certain bill of fare that inevitably swings around into the same old notch with each recurring week. The steward and his cooks do not seem to realize the unlimited capacities of their situations or to be aware that innumerable cook books can offer them scores of dishes that are equally inexpensive with the present bill of fare...
...line of march were crowded with men, women and children waving handkerchiefs and joking with the jubilant sophomores. When the procession reached the college campus the effigy of Legendre was deposited upon the fatal scaffold, near which stood the sacrificial altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented by a goat, and he was allowed to choose between three fates-either to become a dude, to go to Harvard and be "culchawed...
...becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study is a weariness of the flesh." It is no longer possible to spend one's spare hours in tramping around the country, visiting the many beautiful places of natural scenery, for which this region is so celebrated. The summer guests have all left for the pleasures and excitements of the city; and almost of necessity must the two hundred and fifty students look to their own resources for social enjoyment...
...subscription paper is again being passed around for the benefit of the freshman crew...
...Spain, Germany and northern France being modeled after the University of Paris, and those in Italy and southern France after the University of Bologna. Originally they were not universities, in the modern sense of the term. The nucleus of the modern university was merely a gathering of pupils around a teacher of eminence and repute, whom they supported by fees. The teacher, who was called "doctor" or "magister artum," had no power of conferring degrees. If he was a lecturer of great repute pupils flocked around him, and then, finding himself unable to do the necessary work, he chose...