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...college," and one punishment, expulsion, that would, it seems to me, be the ideal state of things. But it is obvious that such a consummation will have to be reached, if it ever is reached, step by step; and between now and then the students will have to learn to deal with conduct in each other of which they disapprove, in a way of which we have now hardly a foretaste. Public opinion in Harvard College is to-day omnipotent in matters of outward form, dress, manners, language, etc. But I think no one will deny that it is shame...
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 instuctors 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...
...took the form of hooting, stamping on the floor of the grand stand and calling the players names; the occasions for demonstration being pitches, strikes, called balls and Yale errors, indiscrimimately with points scored by Brown. The Brown men boasted that it was very dishonorable conduct and said they learned it in New Haven. Now we have yet to learn that it is not a point of honor with Yale men not to cheer at opponent's errors." But how about that Dartmouth game last year...
...large number of appointments that are being made by the different instructors, for consultation in their courses; and it is to be hoped that every student who has any doubts as to what courses or departments he would best choose, will avail himself of these excellent opportunities of learning something more about the various courses than the mere statements given in the elective pamphlet, and of conversing with those who, by experience, at least ought to know what the advantages of their courses are and what mental requirements those courses are capable of meeting. The necessarily greater Intimacy that arises...
...acting itself can naturally not be spoken of from a professional point of view; that even the most gifted amateur can learn much from the worst and stupidest professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate...