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...Amherst Student is good, as it always is. The following stanza, taken from "An Ode" dedicated and presented to Daniel Pratt, on occasion of his recent visit to Amherst, shows that the students have profited by the teachings of that great philosopher...
...down to enjoy a good novel, or, possibly, to indulge in the cheerful grind. Your chum, a would-be member of the ball nine, is practising drop-catch against the opposite wall; you wish, though perhaps you don't say so, that he was - anywhere, out of the room. You have collected a jolly set for euchre or vingt-et-un, and, coming into your room, find your chum hard at work upon his next theme. Though the conflict of purposes be amicably settled in both cases, you must feel how much more pleasant it would be to be sure...
Since expenses are necessarily greater for a man rooming alone than if he have some one with him, let us hope that the time will soon come when good single rooms can be had at more reasonable prices than...
...departements, the latter in the principal places of the arondissements. Besides these public institutions there are also schools founded and governed by individuals, either secular or under church influence; so that in a certain sense it cannot be denied that liberty of instruction exists in France. Any individual of good record who has attained a certain rank at the University can obtain permission to open a school and obtain pupils. But, on the other hand, this liberty is fettered to such a degree that it can hardly be said to exist...
...Poem, by Mr. W. L. Chase, which followed the singing, possessed those two best qualities of post-prandial verses, - brevity and wit. It contained several good hits, and was, in many respects, the best thing of the evening. The President then introduced the Toast-Master, Mr. W. S. Andrews, who proposed as the first toast, "Our Alma Mater," and called on Mr. Samuel Sherwood to respond. Mr. Sherwood said that he hoped this would not be the only supper of which the class, as a whole, would have the pleasure of partaking, but that the custom would be kept...