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...found myself surrounded by a "sea of upturned faces...
...cases, far different from what we could desire. Even in those colleges where the periodicals are most mature, now and then there crops out some illustration of the puerilities with which the students are amused. Not only in their publications are these manifested, but from various editorials and communications found in those papers we are led to judge that such practices as "burning physics" and "cane rushes" are by no means allowed to die out. On the contrary, every year witnesses additions to the number of meaningless ceremonies. From the Chronicle we learn that '74 in Michigan University is addicted...
...blunders. That such a method of correction is deprecated by those who are ignorant of college ways, and even by some who are familiar with them, I am aware. However, if the considerations for and against such a course are weighed, a large balance, I think, will be found in favor of it. Those who are opposed to it for the most part regard only present effects, the unpleasantness which the one to whom the system is applied may at first experience, and do not analyze the results to ascertain whether they are good...
Will by the undergraduate be found Quite queer...
...college paper, if not the highest, is one at least which all who write are endeavoring to raise. Probably no issue, in all its articles, satisfies the undergraduate critic, and this same critic, when he writes, will do his best to excel that in which he so readily found faults. To the authors themselves, also, very few of their articles are satisfactory, and a second essay will very rarely be found inferior to the first...