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...Dean desires to state that those Seniors who have attained less than 70 per cent on the last annual scale are liable to have the privilege of voluntary recitations taken away from them, in case the right to cut is abused...
...midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard, and get all the possible good from the College; others who are simply content to get through, with the fraction of a per cent to spare; others, again, who have no aim at all, judging the future by the past. During the next year, it is safe to say, the usual number will work, the usual number lie idle, the usual number attain distinction, the usual number be ruthlessly suspended. Prayers and recitations will...
...play the Yale Club. A subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms, or the newspapers chronicle the result of the game; and soon another subscription-paper is circulated to pay a deficit. Now what the College wants is a full statement of where every cent of the money subscribed has gone; and this we have a right to expect. While we have no word of complaint to utter against a single club, we think it eminently just that every treasurer should keep, for the benefit of those who help to support that club, a careful account...
HENCEFORTH the names of students, as they appear on the rank-list, will be divided into groups; each group containing those whose ranks range between certain per cents. The object of this is to avoid the excessive and useless time usually spent in getting up technicalities for the sake of one or two per cent more...
...hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty years, yet the vender of melodies rarely ventures through them, conscious that in whatsoever remote corner he may establish...