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...Freshman at West Point is called a Plebe, and woe be unto that Plebe who does not always remember the respect he owes to all until his six months of probation are over. His principal enemy is the Yearling, (sophomore), who in turn trembles before the august second class man, glad to receive his notice, even though he call him but an Ex-Plebe. Every one who knows nothing about it, imagines that hazing at West Point is something terrible. As a matter of fact. force, or physical violence of any kind is never used, and the basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter From West Point. | 4/14/1885 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-My attention has been called to an article in your issue of March 14, entitled "Practice in Politics," in which you note an experiment in the line of debating societies which is now being tried at Connell. It has been suggested to me by Dr. H. B. Adams, Professor of History in the Johns Hopkins University, to call your attention to an organization of our own, similar in purpose to that at Cornell, although not entirely so in form. Instead of a Mock House of Commons. The classic form of a "Literary Society" has been dragging along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOCK HOUSE OF COMMONS AT JOHNS HOPKINS. | 4/13/1885 | See Source »

...ground laid down in English VII. Even under the lecture system a half course which meets but once a week cannot attempt anything but a cursory and wholly unsatisfactory examination of a few of the more prominent writers of the period under study. While there is no need to call in question the method of teaching pursued in English VII, the method has only shown the weakness of the course as a successful literary view of a century of great writers. Had the lecture system which was so successfully pursued during the first half year been continued, the courses, even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/31/1885 | See Source »

...walks in the yard is a well known, and oft recurred to grievance, and although the authorities have hitherto turned a deaf ear to all appeals concerning them, still there are two places in the walks which are so unutterably bad that we venture once more to call the attention of the powers that be to them, in the hope that they may be repaired. The places referred to are,- the marsh below Appleton Chapel, and the pond at the end of the walk on Harvard Street, just opposite Holyoke St. On every moist day, on each side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/28/1885 | See Source »

...suggestion in regard to the working, charges, etc., of the association, whether received personally or through the columns of the college papers, will have careful consideration, while the association must again call attention to the fact that all money subscribed shall be paid immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Association. | 3/28/1885 | See Source »