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...pray, - we prefer to do that in our rooms, - but a single member of the Faculty, while the most of his hearers are far from being in a devotional frame of mind. Understanding that the gentleman in the Board of Overseers who decided the matter of prayers by his vote was also chiefly instrumental in procuring for us voluntary recitations, we are forced to the conclusion that no kindness could have been intended us, but that all the good intentions concerned in the matter were designed for one corps of instructors...
This great disgrace (for, no matter how it is explained away, it is a disgrace) might be remedied by exacting many more themes and forensics from those who should fall below a certain mark than are now required. There is no doubt that if the men were required to write a theme, say once a fortnight, the more obvious faults of their style - if they can be said to have a style - would be so often brought to their notice, that even the dullest could not help correcting them. The College has already taken this matter in hand...
...hair." In descriptive language the paper is very rich; as a specimen, we have "uproarous silence." It is hardly fair to be severe on a new issue, but it is better for a paper to be dull, and free from shameful typographical errors, than passable in reading matter, and full of such unpardonable mistakes as "wether," "conicious," and "ficle...
That the enterprising men who have managed this matter may not be deterred from punishing the shopkeepers by the consciousness that through themselves some little discredit may be reflected upon the students at large, that the credulity of their victims may be so strengthened that they will pay to have their advertisements printed even on the bills of fare at the commons, and that thus we may be most fully avenged, - is my heartfelt prayer...
...once, leave your all-attractive Parker's and take a stroll with me. Yes, it is rainy, and muddy, and the narrow sidewalks of the "cow-paths" so blocked up with umbrellas, that the possibility of navigating your own through them looks dubious; but no matter, - all the better, in fact. The contrast of the beauties I am about to disclose to you will be all the more striking. At any rate, you can emulate Mark Tapley for once, and get some credit for being jolly. Let us step in here a moment. Ah! yes, this a picture store...