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...this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest of the day. The mock affection of the embraces can hardly be called a deception, since no one supposes that the number of our friends is to be counted by the number of our embraces; and a for the nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well known rhyme about "a little nonsense" and "the wisest men" shows that if any wish to be foolish they have good precedent therefor...
That some few Seniors, conspicuous by the smallness of the number, do show that their potations have been so frequent as to make them forgetful of the conduct becoming to gentlemen, hardly proves that the rest of the class should be debarred from a pleasant frolic. The personal disgrace of a few does not disgrace their class...
...arrangement of tables makes reading in the Library and consulting the vast number of "reserved books" more practicable. We understand that ground will be broken for the addition to Gore Hall early in the coming spring...
...provide students with correct lists of the members of the different societies and accurate records of the athletic contests; deplores the lack of any good management in the book, and the omission of the alphabetical list of students which appeared last year; and points out a number of faults, especially the insertion in conspicuous places of societies which ceased to exist some time...
...such size as to divide the class into large sections, and which can be considered as rivals in the feeblest meaning of that term, so long, presumably, society feeling will color the elections. And so far as this is the generous competition of each society to produce the greatest number of suitable candidates to draw the suffrages of the class, who shall say that this artificial stimulus in eliciting the best men for the places is not laudable? This is the new regime, and demands that each element shall present its strongest men as the condition of representation. The evil...