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Miss Davis scored the biggest kind of a hit. Her make-up was a study and her acting was a treat. She made the most of every opportunity, and was more in her element than in any role she has yet assumed. Her scenes with the Mikado and Ko-Ko were received with roars of laughter, while her singing was greatly applauded...
...organization which is more closely bound up with the traditions of college life than is this one. Not that the club itself dates back so very far,- it was founded, we believe, less than forty years ago,- but that it has been the means of developing and preserving an element in student life, which, the world over, has always been one of its most pleasant characteristics...
...appearance of the Monthly may be said to mark the beginning of purely literary activity see the college, for in the work of a daily paper the literary element does not predominate. Another week or so will in the opening numbers of the Advocate and Lampoon. While the athletic portion of the college is devoting itself body and soul to football, it would be pleasing to see a corresponding vigor on the part of those by whom the literary reputation of the college is established...
...purpose of this society is "to unite men of various views and faiths in a mutual interchange of religious thought and a common search for truth; to develop and impress the idea of the value of the religious element in character and action, and thus to increase in its members that ethical enthusiasm and purpose which is the result alike of intellectual breadth and moral earnestness...
...natural aversion to this unnatural situation has in it no element of contempt; it is rather the respect felt for equals which makes it offensive to see them assuming duties which are universally recognized as belonging to inferiors. And again, it is respect for men as equals which compels reluctance to put them in a position where it would be hard for them to preserve to the full their own sense of equality. Contempt has no place in the protest against student waiters, nor can it be read into that protest by any but the over-sensitive...