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...last Advocate, in an editorial, makes a personal attack on the instructor in Sophomore Rhetoric. The writer of this piece implies that the instructor is neither "sensible" nor "competent," and is to blame for the ill-bred conduct of some members of his class. The Faculty is recommended to discharge the instructor at the end of the year, and it is suggested that it might be well for the University if he should be dismissed even before that time...
...might suppose that the writer of the attack tried to show by his own style what a failure the rhetoric instruction had been. We must grant, I fear, that it has been a complete failure in his case...
...that in the last rhetoric examination those who had read and heard good English generally had good marks. Some, who by application and hard work had in other subjects done well, were surprised and provoked by their low standing. In this way only can we account for the fierce attack...
...will end the season of our discontent. We are nearly through with those months of the year when there is nothing else to do but grumble. The bell that summons us to our semiannuals rings to-morrow for the last time. Henceforth we must look for something else to attack. Plank walks between Matthews and University, complaints about the Library, lamentations over the squeaking boots of proctors, have all afforded stanch material for dissatisfaction to the College papers. While we should be the first to welcome changes for the better in these and a thousand other abuses, we feel...
...Heavens!" I exclaimed, "that's an attack from a new point with a vengeance...