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...mass of reformation so published and criticised, when sifted down, appears most sorry in dimensions. The greatest reform we have been guilty of is the dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary" disposition and bent have been to all outward appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which...
...demands the beauty and grace of person, the purity and loftiness of bearing, which Miss Ethel so easily gives to it. Although unequal to the passages of tragic emotion, these are so few that the lady's weakness in those parts leaves but little impression on the mind. Her greatest success is achieved in the first scene with her husband, where she shows him the drawings, and in the fourth act, where she endeavors to recall his truant love. In these scenes her light-comedy powers have full scope, and we recognize them to be of high order. Her support...
...being presupposed, candidates from different colleges will be examined by a competent board, and the prizes assigned to those who give evidence of the best general qualifications. As in the case of the English schools and the University Scholarships, each college will work for the reputation of furnishing the greatest number of successful candidates. Each, also, will try to be excellent in its various departments, that it may secure many of these scholars as resident graduates...