Word: exceptionality
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...will attend a meeting or two, find it stupid, and afterwards stay away. The treasurer will send you a bill or two, which you will forget to pay. Your name will be posted, but nobody will read it. And in the end you will resign, having gained no advantage except a certificate of membership. The truth is that French clubs and German clubs and chess clubs have no real reason for existence, and their life is consequently very artificial. A respectable literary society is sometimes worth joining. Other serious organizations I should advise you to avoid...
...fulfil this end it was found necessary to assign some examinations to the afternoon. It has been the endeavor of those who have had charge of the schedule to arrange the examinations so that no person should have two on the same day, and they have succeeded entirely, except as regards such students as are making up conditions. A number of cases have occurred this year in which students have had several of their examinations occur closely together in the first few days. This shows plainly the propriety of an early publication of the schedule, in order that unavoidable inconveniences...
...opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came to the same conclusion about five years ago. The petition sent to the Corporation says that the interests of the students demand the recess; we may say that the well-being of the instructors demands it still more. Except the very hardest grinds among those who are working for a summa cum, none of us begin to do the amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down...
...four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests, and every college, except Harvard and Yale, will row in four-oared boats. At the time of our fall races we said that the action of the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. in making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared was bad for the rowing interest...
...match shows, still it is nominally a defeat for Harvard. It is said that Seamans missed a place-kick for the first time during a match. We hope that Harvard will soon regain her laurels; indeed, we are magnanimous enough to wish that no club may ever beat her, except our own, or some other Canadian team...