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...building devoted to such uses it is evident that good ventilation is of primary importance. Owing to some fault in the structure of our Gymnasium, it is impossible to obtain this except by opening large windows, which expedient renders the centre of the building too cold, while it fails to ventilate the dressing-rooms at all. Another convenience, and one which is considered indispensable to all modern gymnasiums, would be supplied by the introduction of bath-rooms...
...Tyndall, for no other reason than that they are both Englishmen, - a sufficient ground, no doubt, in The Student's eyes. We are sorry to see the matter so indisputably settled. How have our idols fallen! Before reading The Student, we had always regarded Dickens as quite a good author, - brilliant, interesting, and instructive. But no, it can't be so; for "Dickens's life was spent chiefly to amuse idle people; albeit, we must acknowledge that incidentally he was useful, once in a while, by exposing social defects and vices." Poor Dickens! Some people are foolish enough to look...
...compliment it on its fine appearance and the peace that has existed in time past between The Spectator and The College Journal. The number now before us is full of interest to students and outside contributors. Their success is insured if the new editors make Vol. II. as good as the last number...
...often been remarked by persons of observation and experience, when speaking of those who are called popular men in college, that they obtain their position by "being politic," that is, by seizing all opportunities of insinuating themselves into the good graces of their companions, embracing all occasions of placing themselves prominently forward, and perhaps by treading over the timid and cautious and by assuming a right and power, which is yielded to them, not because they have any claims to what they assume, but because others have not the courage nor inclination to dispute or compete with them...
...this reason there will be many who refuse to confide in him. He is the surface man of his time, and he treads often upon a thin crust of earth which inevitably breaks under and precipitates him far below the influence of man's good opinion...