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...attempt was made to give a reason why so few students - at that time only a hundred - had applied for seats in the Hall. This was attributed to a doubt on the part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that for a little more than that a student could get good, plain food, simply but well cooked, which would...
Towards Harvard University I have long had a feeling of affection, in some respects almost veneration; to Harvard, and to you, its distinguished President, I now cordially wish all manner of prosperity and good esteem from wise men on both sides of the ocean...
...disturbances that occur too often in the Yard about midnight. A few men seem disposed to make "night higeous," and have succeeded admirably in the past; this is a little pleasantry that can be indulged in in perfect safety, and yet it is directly disagreeable to a good many quiet students, and we think the men themselves would feel indignant if treated in the same way. Indirectly it may do more mischief, and lead to more stringent rules respecting singing in the Yard. The yelling of a few blatant fellows rendered garrulous by a fictitious stimulant has occurred, and must...
...have received the first number of the University Magazine from the University of Pennsylvania. It promises to be a very good paper...
...loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little woman is a keen judge of character though, and can detect a gentilhomme from an artiste as readily as silk from satin. For the weary cash-boy she reserves her surplus of good-nature, but to the flippant fop she is frigidly civil. She seems never to tire, and lets to-morrow take care of itself in a charmingly reckless way. Why worry about tomorrow? Goodness knows, she has enough to trouble her to-day. Why worry about to-day? It won't last long...