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...speakers for commencement day should hereafter be appointed on what has always, tacitly, at least, been understood as the basis, viz., the student's 'general scholarship, literary ability and conduct throughout the course,' and since we do not believe it right that we should accept appointments which thus distinguish certain of our number as 'honor girls,' we respectfully ask that, in our case at least, no honor list shall in any way be announced, and that commencement exercises, as conducted by the students, be omitted. Our own wish would be that the literary exercises on that day should be furnished...
...festive spirit which seems to be rife among certain students of late, and which relieves itself by making outrageous noises in the yard every night, ought to be repressed by them. It is to great a nuisance to be endured longer. If men do not care to study themselves, at least common courtesy ought to keep them from greatly annoying those who are compelled to work. A little reflection must show any one who has been rude enough to create a disturbance that he has done a most unjust thing, and will, we sincerely trust, lead him to cease hereafter...
...common in Germany, and not in June, when, with many, physical relaxation is at its greatest. At our present examination season, or earlier, the nervous systems of even the animals we experiment upon in physiological laboratories have so much less vigor as to be unserviceable for certain scientific purposes. The winter is nature's season for indoor and bookish work, while June days bring languor, give a fresh attraction to out-of-doors that comports ill with the culmination of the mental efforts of a year...
...Well, sir, I should think they would! Good-day, Mr. Porter," and the president departed, saying nothing more, for he always wisely allowed for the existence of a certain amount of human nature in ingenious youth...
Prominent among the vexations consequent to the beginning of a college year, considerable trouble is generally caused by students finding that books for certain branches cannot be procured at once; particularly is this so in the case of books that are published abroad. It is very disagreeable to fritter away two or three weeks at the commencement of the term, and it seems entirely unnecessary. If, during the summer, all those professors who propose, as some have formerly, would notify the book-sellers and the Co-operative Society to have them on hand, the difficulty would thus easily be done...