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Matters, however, would be at least bearable if we were allowed to cut the few recitations just before and just after the Christmas recess on our own responsibility, without other consequence than those of loosing the advantages to be gained by attending them. But when the college authorities see fit to fix important examinations for the day before the recess, some protest ought to be made. If we cut those examinations we endanger our standing for the year, and if we do not cut them, some of us cannot get home till after Christmas. The Christmas week...
...represented by the color of the ink in which the design is printed. Though the arrangement and prominence given to the different societies might have been a little more judicious from an artistic point of view, the cover is a great improvement on its previous and will be a fit one to shelter all the valuable information contained in this little volume...
...generous freshman exclaimed that the authorities should at least grant a Thanksgiving recess of three days to the instructors, if they do not see fit to give it to the students. This evidences an early development of Philosophy in the class...
...this year, we may as well be prepared to yield to her for all time to come, which we have no notion of doing. The conditions on which we insist this year have been copied with minuteness, and as a matter of principle, from the conditions which Yale saw fit to force on us last year; after this year, if Yale wishes to do so, the arrangements between the two colleges will be a matter for mutual concession, but Yale must first make good her unfair extortions of last year...
...lectures altogether, and thereby spare the lecturer annoyance and preserve the University's good name. For such action forces us to one of two conclusions: Either the knowledge of these men is too extended to permit their wasting an hour in listening to such men as are deemed fit to instruct us, ordinary mortals, or their brains are too feeble to stand the strain of absorbing so much at one time...