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Prof. (facetiously). - You do allow, then, an ass to know more Hebrew than...
...take those courses in which it is easiest to obtain a high rank, thus following no fixed plan of study, and leaving college without having enjoyed its highest advantages. How the Corporation and the Faculty have arrived at the conclusions that influence their action it Would be interesting to know. But perhaps the son of the pastor of a wealthy parish, or a student who pays $250 for his room, or one who spends the summer in Europe, is entitled to eleemosynary considerations...
...clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last new step. I have heard that in some of the old buildings men frequently have to bring up coal and water from the lower regions, and I know perfectly well that most of the students are under the tyranny of Goodies, Pocos, and Janitors. It may not be generally known that a volume of miscellaneous essays which Leibnitz presented to the Library has been recently discovered in overhauling the department of fiction; in a short dissertation on "Evil...
...many members of the Class of '80 have evinced a desire to know what arrangement has been made by the committee with Mr. James Notman, the Class Photographer, it would perhaps be well to enumerate a few clauses in the contract which are of special interest. Such clauses are as follows: Mr. Notman promises, "That every photograph of any member of said class shall be satisfactory to such member and to the Class Committee; and the satisfaction of every member shall be shown by his written certificate. Such certificate I promise to procure in every case when requested by said...
...Demoralizing Tendencies of American Life, and then will spend the evening smashing glass in a variety theatre. He is great in theories, - he has one ready for every occasion, - but when you get him down to practice, he is n't there. Too much trouble, really, you know! He can reform the world, - on paper, - but is too fond of his diurnal cigarette and siesta to pitch in and carry out his own ideas. He prefers to dream about it from a distance. In fine, he is a man who spends four years at college in filling his head with...