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...idea of visitors coming to the Hall at meal-time is no less absurd than it would be for people to flock to one of our large hotels to see the guests eat. However, if they must come to the Hall, they ought to make no distinction between it and a hotel, and they ought to conform to the same rules of politeness which would govern them in such a place...
SOME books have disappeared from the Yale Library, and the Library Committee have published a card in the Courant, threatening to make public the name of any person who shall be found guilty of taking a book from the Library. In reference to the new Chapel at New Haven, the Courant prints the following pithy editorial...
...About half of everything here is hypocritical to a more or less extent," is the "awful statement," to make which the Lampoon abandons its levity. If this statement be true, the Lampoon will not have lived in vain. If by these words we are brought to a realizing sense of our condition, our "comic college journal" will deserve all the good things that have been said of it, and may rest its reputation on this one point...
...that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest in their work, those who have no interest and never make believe that they have, and finally the Mr. Digby who "runs up to the instructor after recitation." This gentleman...
...Institute pretend to be great debaters. In the Art Club men may learn something of art, and in the Institute they may get some little practice in speaking; but as far as I am aware, neither of these societies pretends to anything more, and, as long as they make no such pretence, they do not, in my opinion, lay themselves open to the charge of hypocrisy...