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...from the strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them...
...poet was next introduced, Benjamin A. Gould, Jr., '91. The poem was always happy and often brilliantly clever as it hit off the prowess and familiar characteristics of the men we have watched with such deep interest that we have grown to feel the reality of that often hypothetical thing, college brotherhood. From Lake to Cumnock, he went through the list and ended by declaring "There's no sweeter music than Twelve...
...season of the year has come when one is obliged to wear outer wrappings of one kind or another on the way to one's lectures, but what to do with these garments when one has arrived at the lecture room is often a puzzie. There are very few rooms where there is any chance to hang up coats and hats; the result is that a man has to sit beside his damp clothing throughout an hour, much to the discomfort of both himself and those about him. We see no reason why, in the smaller rooms at least, suitable...
...December number of the Harvard Monthly opens with "A Word about Lamb's brose Style," by Mr. W. B. S. Clyner. Mr. Clymer calls Lamb's style not simple as it is often said to be, but "manifoldly complex, like a violet...
...George Gordon spoke yesterday afternoon at the Vesper service. He said that in the ancient times most cities used to be surrounded by strong walls. Cities without walls, however, were not very rare, and they were often full of beautiful works of art, and their citizens famous in oratory and literature, but these were the defenceless cities, open on all sides to the attacks of enemies. It is just the same with human souls; those alone are secure from temptations which are well enclosed in a wall of moral courage and right. A man has no right to enter college...