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...shall, if it always sings as pleasantly as in the last few numbers. The Beacon, however, is not critical enough in its selections. The College Argus contains but little, and that is of interest only to its college. The Niagara Index is wretchedly printed and made up, and is hard reading. The Round Table complains of college indifference. This was a standard subject for Harvard papers about three years ago, but we suppose the evil has just reached Wisconsin. Hor&ae Scholastic&ae is the most pretentious of the papers from the preparatory schools, and has the most literary merit...
...perform faithfully regular work and review past work at once. As for vacation, the less said about that the better; vacation is given us presumably for rest, but from the extras forced upon us in more than one course, the vacation is partially, if not wholly, consumed in hard work. In the not unique case where a man has four examinations, one in laboratory work, in three days, it is perfectly evident to an unprejudiced mind that the exhausted student will not do himself justice on the fourth examination. A short extension of the semi-annuals would remove all these...
...found it hard...
...rise in the price of board at Memorial is not owing wholly to a rise in the price of provisions. Though hard to believe, yet it is a fact that the Association is imposed upon by thoughtless, if not unconscientious and dishonorable men in the University. During the recess many took meals there without paying for them, and some were there a week without registering. It is very easy to see how men who have once boarded at Memorial afterwards look upon it as a kind of reserve; but the principle is the same as that...
...presidential question: for Bayard, 38 per centum; Sherman, 14 per centum; Grant, 10 per centum; Edmunds, 7 per centum; Blaine, 7 per centum; Hayes, 6 per centum; Evarts, 6 per centum; "anti-Grant," 6 per centum; scattering, 6 per centum. The polls were open for a week, and hard work was done for Grant...