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...mildly remind the Faculty of two facts: 1st, That they once passed a law which prohibits playing of musical instruments on the campus, except during certain fixed hours; 2d, That a church organ is a musical instrument...
...Oxford and Cambridge Journal notices a case which has recently figured in the Cambridge police-courts. It appears that an undergraduate named Linklater borrowed certain sums of money from a man named Sanderson at the moderate interest of 300 per cent. As Linklater lived very fast, and as his allowance was moderate, he was unable to pay Sanderson's account when it was presented. The matter was allowed to rest for some time, and finally Linklater showed a disposition to break his agreement, on the ground that he was a minor at the time he made it. Sanderson thereupon alleged...
When, however, these people are publicly encouraged in their insolent error by a person whose authoritative position lends to his most senseless words a certain degree of importance, I feel it my duty as a conscientious man to raise my voice against the fostering of notions which may damn the future of our nation...
...exercises will be held an hour earlier than at present; that prayers will come at a quarter before seven, and that recitations will begin at eight. Why this change should be made it is hard to see. The present arrangement is very satisfactory to all concerned, and it is certain that the new one will be decidedly unsatisfactory to many students, and presumably to such professors as are obliged thereby to be at the post of duty as the clock strikes eight...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...