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There is evidently some misconception at Yale as to the manner of conduct here; for the Record, writing relative to the recent action of '82 in regard to '85 admittance to the tree, says: "Yet, supposing it to hold in full force, how is it to be carried out? Will the university appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them...
...feared that the purpose will be seriously interfered with before leaving Cambridge. In a few days a notice will be posted, inviting all those who desire to anticipate Rhetoric to assemble at a certain time and place to receive instructions as to the best manner of preparing for the examination. Would-be candidates amounting in number to, perhaps, three-fourths of the class will be surprised to find on assembling that the main efforts of the instructor who receives them is not to make plain how best to study the subject during the summer, in order to successfully take...
...reforms before another year. We fail entirely to see what services the average janitor performs that he should be entitled to the respectable remuneration that he receives. He refuses to do the simplest errands; his most important duty - the supervision of the goodies - he does in the most slipshod manner possible; the only thing be does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room...
...Students shall be slow to speake and eschew and in as much as in them lies, shall take care, that others may avoid all sweareing, lieing, curseing, needless asseverations, foolish talkeing, scurrility, babling, filthy speakeing, chideing, strife, raileing, reproacheing, abusive jesting, uncomely noise, uncertaine rumors, divulging secrets, and all manner of troublesome and offensive gestures, as being the [torn] should shine before others in exemplary life...
...Yale News says that before the Harvard-Yale game "every man in the nine was perfection; now he is damnation." It is too often the custom after a defeat to shower abuse on every individual member of the defeated nine, instead of regarding the affair in a philosophical manner, well knowing that in base-ball an almost perfect nine is bound to have its "off-days." After a defeat, a nine should be encouraged to do better in the future. It is bad enough for a nine to be beaten, without receiving the abuse of the whole college, after months...