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...most objectionable species of athletic contests is constantly going on at the Hall. We refer to the wrestling matches that take place among the waiters when one attempts to take food from another's table. Now although rules lead to inferences we are strongly of the opinion that certain stringent rules ought to be adopted forbidding all such performances. It is most unpleasant to be a witness of these constantly occurring contests, particularly so since they are in direct violation of all good order. The directors have shown themselves to be heartily in favor of all reforms, and we look...
American every-day speech is full of curious expressions now-a-days when "slang" is so very plentiful, and some of these, while not in the slightest ungramatical, are yet always condemned as "Americanisms." Nearly every one from childhood has heard the name, "Americanisms" applied to certain words or phrases, and gradually everyone learns to feel that all expressions so stamped ought at least to be avoided if not suppressed. And yet there are but comparatively few people who know what an "Americanism" really is. In a recent article Mr. Richard Grant White in referring to them, answers the question...
Every young man in France must have a college education, or be able to pass a certain examination unless he wishes to serve five years in the army...
...great plausibility and some real strength. but we can only say that to the best of our knowledge the nine trained faithfully, except that they were allowed to smoke; that the captain, laboring as he did under great personal disadvantages and though he did not have the sympathy of certain "know-alls" who croaked and condemned the nine at every step because the captain was a sophomore, made every effort to bring a good team into the field; that the members were only absent when sick or injured ; that, though they were naturally dispirited by their misfortunes, the nine showed...
...friends and business acquaintances of the latter look unfavorably at the society. In this way it increases the difficulties of the superintendent in obtaining goods. The society exists exclusively for the benefit of persons connected with the university, and does not mean to injure any one. To a certain extent it must interfere with the trade of the Cambridge dealers; but it is no part of its object to cause them to lower their prices generally, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Cambridge at large...