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...could answer the questions that have been given to you." "Have you really, sir?" said the undergraduate, blandly. "May I ask if you would sell him?" - [Ex.] The above item appears to lack point. But it bears an English trademark and so we are quite sure it is "good form...
...nearly completed, great progress having been made during the vacation. The sixty thousand volumes comprising the library were formerly divided into four divisions, being owned by four different societies; but now the societies have voted that the libraries belonging to them be thrown together and reclassified, so as to form one complete whole, instead of being so widely scattered that, to find one book, sometimes you would be obliged to look in four different places for it and then, perhaps, not find...
...such means, without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students exhibit in ways more or less direct the positive and active effects of these lectures on their own knowledge and thoughts. For the present, at least, these lectures form an interesting relief from the irksome grind of formal courses. As the Chronicle says on this subject, "New lines of thought are followed; old ones are made more attractive, and a new spirit is imparted both to scholar and professor." A new subject will be treated this year...
...Look at this slight young man in his room, bending lazily or earnestly over his books as the case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling and sign-disturbing possibilities that lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those who studied were supposed to be so exalted over the ignorant throng of townspeople as to be moving...
...Lampoon Board, at the request of a large number of its subscribers, have determined to reprint, in pamphlet form, all the best sketches of the First Series. The Lampoons of the first series are now out of print, and this is the only means of obtaining copies of the college wit which has done so much to brighten college life. Subscription books will be opened at Sever's and at Bartlett's next Monday. Only a limited number of these books will be published, and the subscription price will be $1.00 per copy...