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...some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club side. There are other social relations beyond those of the societies which are well worth the student's time. Close societies will always foster cliques, and cliques cannot but deteriorate the general good-fellowship of a class. Every new member of the college while exercising the greatest care as to the class of students with which he purposes to associate, ought to remember that his society life is simply accessory to his regular college life, and that it should be made such...
...gain their proper places, neither will gain undue supremacy over the other. Also, the opponents of co-education argue most strongly on this very point, for they declare that affection will get the better of intellect every time. And yet in spite of all, in spite of the general belief that at least affection would not suffer, while it might even be injurious to intellect, here are the young ladies of Oberlin actually finding the subject debatable. This, we say, is seriously significant. If affection is in any danger at Oberlin, what dangers must she not be in at Harvard...
There is a need felt by many students which the elective pamphlet does not satisfy. A course is demanded in common English law, not for those students who intend to become lawyers, but for those who are looking forward to business. Such a course, embracing the general features of common business law and the every-day methods of procedure, would meet with approval at large among our students, and would be productive of practical results of value. The subject is no more technical than that of political economy or the study of finance. It is kindred to the subjects...
...more gentlemen can be accommodated with seats at the General Table of Miss Cotter's, 10 Oxford...
...exchange columns in school and college journals to-day are readable. Editors doubtless find them interesting, at times exciting, but general readers almost never find them so. Here, then, is a real fault, - a fault that has but one cure. Exchange editors should talk not in petty small-talk, as so many of them do, but in a way that will involve some generality, some interest to their readers as well as to themselves. The small-talk should more properly be conducted by private correspondence. But whatever is done, extravagance should be avoided...