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...sure, would have no voice in the nominations, but in the elections their votes would be as powerful as any; and if they cast a solid vote they would make so formidable an opposition that the nominating bodies would have to regard their opinion. Rampant democrats may cry out that this is unfair, but they should remember that the societies differ widely in their scope, and that any student whose mind and whose manners fit him for admission to any one of them can obtain it by the exercise of a little tact. If in his Senior year...
...social science before the envious eyes of all past and present greatness, has finally deposited it on the head of modest Henry C. Carey. Not content with this even, the inimitable Kate pedestals her hero and, labelling him "the Newton of Social Science," reluctantly withdraws, that generations yet unborn may have opportunity to do him proper homage...
...slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word shall might give way to the gentle "may" or to the potential and insinuating...
...praise that most curiously interesting "Vassar Manual."* It is not a new work, but has been recently discovered and reprinted, and around its contents cling the air and spirit of a bygone age. Its real date must be far earlier than that assigned by the title-page, though this may very well be the true date of a modern reprint. That this curious collection of brief essays, sonnets, epigrams, and oracular injunctions was intended for a most limited circulation, we infer from the direction on the cover of our copy, "Not to be taken from Room...
...applicable to these charming scenes as to the proceedings of the Greeks. One incident only, which may serve as a specimen, I should like to relate...