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EVER since that memorable confusion of tongues which we are told took place quite a number of years ago on the plain of Shinar, there has been an ever-increasing tendency among mortals to divergency in idiom and pronunciation of speech, even among those people whom we should expect to have the greatest points of similarity. One of the many curious features of college life is the bovine persistency with which some of our students stick to errors in pronunciation acquired in early youth: Among the poor and uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation...
...novel-reading our pleasure is confined wholly to the finite. If any future author shall be pleased to lay the scene of his story in Jupiter or Neptune, we shall not experience, but until that time we wish to see ourselves mirrored, and not the Jovials or the in-expect to find anything in common with our habitants of any ideal planet...
...complete as many would have us believe. The graduates of the last twenty-five years are men who have as yet no more than entered upon that period of life when the mind is strongest, the period from forty-five to sixty; so that we are warned not to expect too much. Again, through want of perspective it is difficult to tell who are in reality prominent...
...that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that every student can get a good room here in proportion to his means; but those who are willing only to pay $70 cannot expect as good accommodations as those who pay $300. There is a class of writers for the College papers who seize upon some imaginary wrong of this description with avidity, as it affords them a subject upon which to write. These little attempts are harmless enough when carefully pruned...
...much to be regretted that Mr. Dana, the loss of whose really valuable services is a serious drawback, has decided to cease coaching. His place is now filled by Mr. Loring, '78, from whom the College will expect faithful, painstaking efforts and proportional success. Under his care the crew have slightly improved in catch and reach; but the individual faults have not noticeably decreased...