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DEAR SUE: The ordinary course of college life is tame enough, but occasionally something occurs to break the monotony. The other night loud screams were heard issuing from the west entry of Holworthy. Of course we turned out en masse to see what the matter was. It appeared, on investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

GRADUATES often complain that they never received adequate instruction in that most important branch, Elocution, while in college, and now feel their deficiency when called upon to speak in public. The fact that out of the twenty or twenty-five Freshmen selected as meriting the right even to compete for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

The present Junior Class are doubtless sufficiently grateful for the benefit they may have derived from reading fifty lines of Milton once in four weeks (anything in the Dean's Report to the contrary notwithstanding) last year, yet they are not to blame for not yet feeling fully accomplished in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

IT is almost with regret that we take up a burlesque of that delight of our school-days, Sandford and Merton; but, since the author of the new history has already given us proof of his humor in Happy Thoughts and other books, we look for amusement, if not instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

IT would seem that the facilities offered at the Bussey Institution for instruction in agriculture are not taken advantage of or appreciated. For we learn that "no small part of the time of the instructors has been spent in supervising the construction of buildings, aqueducts, reservoirs, and roadways; in fitting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1873 | See Source »