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...started off very well, and we return its Christmas greeting with interest. Its illustrations are, as a whole, very good, though we are inclined to think some of its jokes too local. However, it has abundant good nature, and combines fact, fiction, and fun in a very satisfactory manner...
...want to point out a fact or two. One is that the people who, of all others, seek efficiency most, and that often at the direct cost of culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail to get it for their sons. All Scotchmen are not graduates...
...taken into consideration. Dec. 10 Yale sent us a letter in which an answer to her challenge was requested before Jan. 18. Last year after Yale had accepted our challenge we could do nothing with her in regard to some of the arrangements, one of which was the manner of starting the boats. This controversy was finally settled by Harvard's giving in at the starting line. This year the acceptance of Yale's challenge, together with the settlement of all minor arrangements, has been put into the hands of the graduate advisory committee...
...them, while the simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes and all licenses of thought and subject. The majority of appropriate college themes in French metres would find themselves ill at ease when so finely gotten up and would move about in a restrained and over-careful manner. The sad smile of politeness and worn-out gallantry is substituted for substantial good-nature. Appearance is of first importance, little matters the rest...
...hasty perusal, we can find nothing to criticise in the Index and much to praise. We hope the students will show in a substantial manner their appreciation of the efforts of its energetic compiler...