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...would consider both papers on an equal footing. We have since learned that the Monthly has a promise from three instructors which gives it an advantage, as in the selection of themes. We much regret this mistake; it arose from a misunderstanding on our part, and we hasten to correct...
...students must exercise the most scrupulous care to keep everything in the most cleanly condition possible. We are sorry to note that there has been of late a lapse from the standard of neatness which ordinarily prevails in the gymnasium. It ought to take but a word to correct this fault...
...death, many stories about his peculiarities appeared in the daily papers. This story, which at least shows his originality, and his opinion of human nature, is told by Prof. Shaler. Prof. Sophocles happened upon Prof. Shaler, just after the examination, and Prof. Shaler was groaning over the unsatisfactoriness of correcting the examination books. Prof. Sophocles asked him in surprise, "Do you correct the Blue Books? Why do you do it? You know how much each student ought to get. If he does not do so well as you expected, it makes no difference, and if he does much better...
...shortly to come up before our faculty. The Amherst Senate, inasmuch as it is the oldest and best known of student governing bodies, first deserves our attention. Much has been written about it, much indeed which is untrue or misleading, and we hope therefore that this article may correct any wrong impressions which have been made...
There stands beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could...