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...cause. But there has also been a pleasant side to the last few days as well as a sad one, and there are numerous plans already on foot for future entertainments. The coming junior promenade is already beginning to be a prominent topic of conversation and '85 is bound if possible to make it seem a greater success than last year's, which is say a great deal. We only trust that when it does actually come off, the News will restrain itself and not give way to such a strain of gush and nonsense as was contained...
...interesting. Last year's number was no exception to the rule, though in many respects not up to our ideas of such a publication. It unfortunately possessed in some degree the fault common to most of its kind, weakness in illustration, but its general appearance is prepossessing. The heavy bound covers are a novel but sensible departure, while the outside design is very unique and artistic. In our opinion it makes a great mistake in publishing the usual string of personal squibs on the various members of the junior class, which must always be somewhat vulgar. A special feature...
...insisting upon preserving the anomaly of compulsory religious services. Almost nowhere else in the civilized world are men forced, to conform to a religious ritual despite their own wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else the college refuses to stand in loco parentis. In this matter it insists upon so standing. And yet here, even it fails in really occupying the position...
...been the aim of the society to spread its principles by having men who practiced these principles, and whom the mass of students were bound to respect, to come to Cambridge and address public meetings of the society. We do not wish to conduct ourselves as fanatics, but in a manly, dignified manner deport ourselves according to the principles we represent, so as to obtain at least the respect and good will of the majority of our fellow students...
...fight for life before him, Rupert saved his pocket knife and threw away all his clothing but his drawers and undershirt. His drawers he tore into strips about an inch and a half wide, and cutting new holes through the cork sections of the life preserver he bound them securely together with the strings made from the drawers. The desperation with which he did this work and the careful manner in which he prepared everything was made painfully apparent by the condition of the life preserver when found upon the body. It took me nearly half an hour to untie...