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...Amherst. Very few men go through collge without making their bow at Smith at least once, and about a fifth call there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert or two, and a general reception at commencement complete the list of the social attractions at the "Hamp." No complaint is more commonly made in college than the complaint that class spirit is dying out. And there is much to support this belief. True, the lower classes manifest their esprit de corps in rushes, bonfires and like performances. But class spirit as it was twenty or thirty years ago, class...
...repaid for the time spent in training. It is an excellent plan to get into the habit of steady, systematic gymnasium work, such as is required of the candidates, and every man will feel the benefit of this winter's work through the remainder of his college life. The complaint is often made that men will not train for any team unless they feel confident of securing a position upon it. This is only too true, and I would urge the freshmen not to allow this to be said of them, but to start in their first year with...
Scarcely a day goes by which does not bring in one shape or another some complaint regarding the execrable ventilation of the library. It is Harvard's boast to have a library which possesses more advantages for students than that of any other University in this country; but of what benefit are the treasured books if, in order to read them one has to suffer either a close, shiftin atmosphere or to endure such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with...
...complaint which we occasionally hear about the uselessness of bothering about it, which then results in selecting a lot of heterogeneous work, clearly arises from idleness and a lack of recognition of the responsibility which rests on a man's shoulders in this matter. This feeling, fortunately, obtains in a very meagre proportion of the students and is sure to be condemned by all the rest...
...complaint which our correspondent of to-day makes in regard to the use of reserved books in the library is one which has been heard continually for a long time. We hesitate, therefore, to enter once more upon the subject, The summary measures taken last year to punish the hiding of books seemed at that time to meet the exigencies of the case, but further repressive measures of some kind will be necessary if any liberty in this matter is to be given the students. The particular case referred to by our correspondent does not stand alone, by any means...