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...surprised to learn that members of the lower classes are either blankly refusing to give up their rooms to seniors for use on next class-day, or are giving them up with a good deal of reluctance. Only freshmen have any excuse for not knowing that it is a time-honored custom for all lower classmen to yield their rooms to seniors for class-day, of all the days in the year, the seniors day; and, if nothing else, it is at least a courtesy for all others to give way to them at that time...
...soon we learn to discriminate between the honest maiden from the rural districts and that Cambridge girl who has not missed the "ring around the tree" for a dozen years. The Cambridge maiden has acquired a taste for college students as a Parisian for absinthe, and can be happy with anything from a sub-freshman to a Divinity student...
...year should immediatelyorder their French and German books through the society. An order may be put in as a general order for all the books in a given course,-for example, an order for all French books to be used for French 1. The society has taken measures to learn what will be the books used in the various courses, and will fill such general orders and get the books in time. Orders for books that are to be used at the beginning of the next academic year must be handed in not later than July...
Students who wish to obtain all the French and German books needed in any given course can obtain them through the society by putting in a general order to that effect. The society will learn from the instructors the books that will be used in the courses, and when they will be needed and will procure them in pursuance of the general orders, in time for use. If students wish to have not only the books required in a course, but also those recommended, they must specially state that they order recommended books. If nothing to the contrary appears, orders...
...certain amount of time each day to study and come what may, be it sport or exercise, they never fail to devote so much time to their studies, nor swerve in their duty. Thus, as it were, wedging their minds between two rigid walls of time they learn to accomplish more by thus limiting their opportunities of study than many who never cease to "grind" out the modicum of study required by the college regulations. The art of study is truly a great one, and an art that ought to be learned early in life, before, if possible...