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Said one freshman solemnly to another: "Got your lessons?" "I am not sure." "Neither am I; for, you know, you don't always know what you do know for certain, don't you know...
...classics in English literature in consequence of this indolence. In this connection the examination system of the present day comes up. "Among all the evils that follow in the train of a regular system of examinations," says the writer, "we know of none greater than a certain habit of indolence which it forms in the mind. It encourages a student-nay, even in the press of competition it almost forces him-to accept his judgments ready-made. He wants to know what others say of a writer, not what the writer himself says. He has no time to take...
...have the authority of a member of the faculty for the following anecdote of Prof. Sophocles: In a certain class, some twenty years ago, there were two students of the same name, one a youth of leisure and the other a man of study. They sat side by side in the Greek section under Professor Sophocles, who was, as is known, a better scholar than instructor. The mark lists at that time were made out monthly, and Jones, the student, was surprised one morning to find that his marks were low, and the other man's were high. The professor...
...number added to the list. The Yale Record, then the Cornell Era, Michigan Chronicle and even the staid and sober Amherst Student, with a number of lesser journals, have all become giddy in their new dresses. They may well be proud, for their appearance is much improved and a certain individuality now attaches to each paper where before they were but one from a throng of plain, scarcely distinguishable exchanges. Meanwhile the Lampoon and several of those mentioned above have changed their colors, but the designs have remained the same...
...Professor" of Mesmerism, whose entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students...