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...heard papa read out of the paper last night (of course you know I never read newspapers; mamma says very few English girls do) - now what was I writing about? Oh, yes. I heard papa read that Oscar Wilde had arrived. Now whatever do they make all this fuss of him for? I don't care one speck about seeing him, but I know some of the girls are just crazy to. I've seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened...
...horrid awful to think that some women want to vote; I know that I'd vote for the best-looking man, and so would all the girls; but I don't see that there's any fun in voting. I only voted once in my life, and that was at our church fair, when I voted for the handsomest girl there. It isn't so that I voted for myself, and that hateful Hurty Randall only said that because I beat her by one vote. Don't you think that gentlemen ought to wear evening dress at the theatre...
...Boston daily paper recently said, "Daniel Webster again bestrides the country like a colussas," which is extremely good for a paper whose employes are supposed to know the rudiments of spelling, at least...
...whom the remembrance of the trials and discouragements that often beset a man at college, is still sufficiently alive to enable them to appreciate the value of friendly advice and cheering support. The result of this is to inspire in men a greater interest in their own welfare, they know that others are active in assisting their success; they acquire increased confidence in their capabilities, and a self-reliance and determination that are only too often lost in the many anxieties of college life...
Referring to our communication in the issue of Jan. 19, in regard to the temperature of Massachusetts Hall during the examination in Rhetoric, we are informed that by an unfortunate oversight the janitor of that building did not know that the hour examination was to be held, and therefore did not heat the building. During the mid-year examinations the college will do everything possible to heat the building. We are glad to see that the authorities are not blind to the comfort of students, as many are apt to think. There certainly was ground for complaint in the fact...