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...pamphlet. This is that hereafter men must definitively settle by November 1 what courses they intend to pursue as electives during the year. No extra hours beyond one (which is allowed to provide for the difficulty of choosing exactly twelve or exactly fourteen hours) will be counted on the general scale as hours of electives, unless they are put down on the list of electives, or unless notice of taking them regularly is given before the date mentioned. Extra hours may still count on the special scale of any study. It has been found necessary to make this restriction...
...Hall will furnish next year, there is need of a social reading-room, to be kept open in the evening, when one has time to look over the newspapers or reviews. The reading-room now in the hands of the undergraduates has never been managed so as to give general satisfaction, and we understand that the finances are not in the best condition. If this room were controlled by the Union, it might be made to meet the wants of the University better than it does now. The door should be kept locked, and each man supplied with...
After this little introduction, they all go on to smile upon those who have smiled on them, or to pour floods of weak sarcasm-and-water on the head of the Niagara Index. In spite of the general weak-mindedness of exchange editors, - a misfortume which is probably the result of having to read the college papers once in two weeks, - "collegiate journalism" has improved a great deal in the last two or three years. A few papers are silly, a good many are heavy, pretentious, or stupid, but there are only one or two left absurd enough to find...
...though a faithful worker, has a lamentably short reach, does n't swing back far enough or straight, and gets his oar too high from the water on the full reach. Five clips, and six settles. Seven settles, squirms, and does n't pull his hands in high. The general faults are also numerous. The four bow men lack reach. All have a flat feather, none raise their hands high enough, or shoot away quick. Some of the men evidently don't pull a proportional share...
After his entrance examination in Greek, Percy, pursuing his grand idea, addressed his neighbor on the subject of Greek verbs; but to his astonishment the man did not enter into a general discussion of the subject with him, and then, overcome by Mr. Villiers' superior knowledge, conceive a violent admiration, and desire the pleasure of his acquaintance. No; this ill-mannered and peculiar young man merely stared and turned away. A little dashed, but not crushed, Percy persevered in his laudable efforts...