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...rest of the day. The mock affection of the embraces can hardly be called a deception, since no one supposes that the number of our friends is to be counted by the number of our embraces; and a for the nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well known rhyme about "a little nonsense" and "the wisest men" shows that if any wish to be foolish they have good precedent therefor, and if not, no one compels them to attend the exercises at the tree...
...rumored that Dr. Noah Porter of Yale College thinks of attending the Beecher-Moulton church council, but it is not yet known whether Captain Cook will grant permission. The matter is under consideration. - Providence Press...
Whether this popular hatred of anything which savors of oligarchy is or is not desirable depends upon the object of the class elections. If this object is to elect the men who may at the moment chance to be most popular or most widely known among their classmates, the purely democratic elections which we have this season witnessed attain it with comparative certainty. If, on the other hand, the object is to elect to each office the person best calculated to fill it with credit, it is by no means so certain that democracy should be the leading characteristic...
...each man's opinion is generally formed in a manner peculiar to himself, a conscientious adherence to the last method would tend to produce a number of candidates positively appalling. Most are sensible enough to perceive this, and most cast their votes for regular nominees, although cases have been known in which infatuated persons have unsuccessfully backed a single idol for every office on the list...
...have received a copy of an article in the School Bulletin, in which Mr. J. H. Allen, so well known as a scholar, has taken the trouble to reply in detail to the criticisms which Mr. D. T. Reilley, said to be of Rutgers College, made on a little book of Mr. Allen's called the "Latin Primer," and designed to "teach little children the elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley...