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Classic Slang - Frigidus dies when I get sinistrum. Quinquagesima sestertii all around. Non ad novus, justus-don't be afraid we won't say it, but you must remember that when Latin was spoken, jokes of this kind must have been comparatively...
...circumstances. A slightly new aspect is given to this question by an editorial article in the first number of Our Continent. It says: "The statistics of the last ten years in this country show that the percentage of failures of college graduates in business is decidedly less than of non-graduates. In driving a bargain the college boy may safely be backed against his commercial cousin. Does not the college curriculum provide admirable training in the management of tailors' bills and the adjustment of expense accounts for the paternal inspection?" The slight flippancy of that last sentence may be disregarded...
...bonnets of a few of our elderly contemporaries. President Porter started the discussion by coming out emphatically in support of the former system in his recent report; then the Nation took him up in an editorial article expounding the two theories and explaining how the former or non-paternal theory is essentially the European idea, and the only reasonable system for a true university, and how the latter theory, represented by Yale, is the native American idea, and can reasonably be only applied to the preparatory school and the pseudo-college. Now for two weeks the correspondence columns...
...rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell and other colleges where this system has been tried the results...
...Stewart has donated $4,000,000 for the purpose of constructing a new college in New York. It will be the largest in America, and non-sectarian...