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...them, and thereby refuted the charge often made, that college students are not capable of governing themselves in attendance at recitations. Statistics of attendance at Harvard and Yale cannot be compared unless several facts are taken into account, which Professor Ladd has ignored. The marks of Yale students depend to a greater degree on regularity at lectures and recitations, than do the marks of Harvard students. The latter can cut lectures, and actually gain in standing thereby. Oftentimes a student is so pressed in one course with special work that he receives ultimate benefit by neglecting his other course...
Each of the Nations has a club-house, its elaborateness depending on the wealth of the society. In every one of the principal clubs, there is a large hall of sufficient size to hold four or five hundred men. Here the great fetes take place, and banquets are given to the other Nations, the hall being used also as a ball-room on such occasions. At ordinary times the hall is used as a gathering place for the men where they smoke, gossip and listen to music by some of their number. Nothing goes...
...colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth in a truthful and respectable manner, shows that there are classes that can distinguish between journalism and newspaperism, and that a financial existence does not necessarily depend on loud type and high sounding distorting headings. The public press should study to elevate public taste and not lower its own standing by catering to the morbid desires of Tom, Dick, and Harry...
There is a popular idea that the utility and magnification of a microscope depend somehow on its size and formidable appearance. How false this conception is can be learned any day by a visit to the work-shop of a practical microscopist. His resplendent "double barrel" binocular is kept carefully under cover, at ordinary times, and only brought out for exhibition, while the real work is done with a smaller and apparently inferior instrument...
...change in the new faculty regulations is one which, though it received comment in our review, deserves more than passing notice. We refer to the abolition of the old and time honored warning and the substitution of the slower, but far more dreadful, admonition. No longer can a student depend for mural decoration upon the attractive cards issued by the faculty. No "prayer" or other warning shall steal upon a man and cast a temporary gloom over his existence. But, after we have been lulled into indifference of the faculty dynamite stored beneath us, suddenly the explosion comes...