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Professor - "Do you know what the sternum is?" Student - "It's the bone the tail feathers grow out of." Class all have the colic...
...head which are called by a milder name, because a college student is supposed to be incapable of crime - he merely breaks the laws." Again he says that a tendency to lawlessness has been observed at Harvard, Yale, etc., within a very recent period. We should be pleased to know in what manner Harvard students, for instance, have been guilty of any lawlessness during, say, the last five or six months. Harvard students have never enjoyed a better reputation than at the present time, and so far this year have been free from any of that rowdyism which...
Miss Mary Fiske is lecturing on "What I Know About Men;" she displays complete familiarity with the subject...
...made in point of scholarship. If a man is working for honors, and deserves them, let him be informed of his success, and the man who fails may also be made acquainted with the result in his case. No particulars should be given to either to let a man know how he has succeeded or failed by a paltry percentage. That the required degree of general excellence was attained is enough; it should not be aggravatingly analyzed, and thus also with men who have not passed. They should not be embittered with such a keenlydrawn line so nearly approached...
...case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice upon the subject. We know, of course, that it is written that "members of the faculty will be ready at any time to render assistance in this regard;" but it is notoriously the case, nevertheless, that comparatively few men do ever secure the advice of a professor at all in arranging their general course...