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...social element grows among the students from year to year. The apartments of Fay house are, indeed, too restricted to allow of as much congregation under its roof as may be thought desirable, but the accommodation is made the most of, and the spirit of fellowship is greater at present than at any other time. The Idler club and the Emmanuel society are among the means of bringing the students often together in a familiar way. To those the English club has lately been added. It is intended "to arouse an interest in the study of English," and specifically...
...childish tricks are undoubtedly to some degree thoughtless, and cannot therefore be visited with any severe penalty; and yet they exhibit to a disgusting degree a lack of refinement. If there had been any humor in the prank it might be pardoned; unfortunately, however, there was not a single element of wit displayed, and meanwhile strangers crossing the yard were simply disgusted at the vulgarity. Who the offender was will in all probability remain a secret. We take this opportunity, nevertheless, to assure him that his ungentlemanly conduct meets the hearty disapproval of the better sentiment of the college...
...service at Appleton chapel last evening was conducted by Dr. Francis G. Peabody. He took his text from the eighth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans, the nineteenth and twentieth verses. He spoke of the element of personal responsibility which underlies and controls development, considering the thought in its relations to home, to society, to government, to the university life, of which we are a part, and finally to man himself. The choir sang Hopkin's anthem, "Lift up your heads," Stainer's, "Blessed be the Man," and Brown's "Thy sun shall no more go down...
...since the resurrection has the character of Thomas appealed as it does to this. Thomas was a doubting character and this is a doubting age. But there is more in the character of Thomas than the incident of the text would lead us to believe, and so, too, the element of doubt is not the principle...
...almost every shoot, and those, in almost every case, are the men who make up the present team. They do not go up because they are on the team, but rather they are on the team because of their constant practice and consequent excellence. There is a very small element of chance in shooting, and it does not require any special aptitude for it. Almost any one with fairly steady nerves and a quick eye. though they may not become crackshots, can by dint of practice, become sure and steady shots, and it is of such men that the team...