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...college with as little work as possible, cutting as many recitations as is allowed, because it is "manly" so to do, hazing, etc.; all this is now done away with, because of the growth and education of public sentiment. Yet all this change from a childish to a manly mode of looking at the college course has been made within a very few years. Growth of moral sentiment in this direction has been rapid. Will not some of those same students who smiled at Prof. Lowell's remarks a few weeks ago be the very ones...
...student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the ideas and customs of other nations...
...Smith followed this truly original plan and obtained a very gratifying result. The "coiffure" of the maiden thus evolved was such a delicious blending of wavy bangs, "Langtry twists," "French knots," "waterfalls" and curls that it has been adopted by a large majority as the college mode, and bids fair to become the rage all over the country. The "average girl" herself bore a striking resemblance to current likenesses of Minerva, though the mouth indicated a decided penchant for caramels and ice cream, and there was a suspicious droop of one eyelid, which showed the sensitiveness of the organ...
...object and mode of procedure of the Union are in no way changed: the debates will continue to be open to the public, and every student will be at liberty to speak from the floor. Some minor changes were proposed, and at nine o'clock the meeting adjourned...
...rowers on the Cambridge should once more take a lesson, as they did some years ago, and re-model their method of execution, for unless they do so they will never be able to successfully contend against a good crew sent from Oxford, who have a much superior mode of propelling their boat...