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...PARAGRAPH in the last Advocate declared that there was much dissatisfaction over this change in the order of speaking for the Boylston Prizes, on the ground that the Juniors had been despoiled of the advantages of their rightful position, the last. The reason why the last place should be deemed the better is probably because the judges are believed to be less critical towards the end of the speaking than at the beginning. The change, however, is not so unfair as it may seem. The present Junior class will have their turn at last place next year...
...examinations at the Gymnasium have been very satisfactory, and we are happy to state that the paragraph which has been going the rounds of the press, as to a prevailing trouble with the heart on account of cigarette smoking and coffee drinking, is utterly false. On the contrary, of the two hundred and fifty men who have been examined, only two have been restricted from the use of the Gymnasium. Of course there have been instances of palpitation of the heart, but nothing more serious than that caused by overwork on the semi-annuals, or excessive exercise just previous...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...
...course, in studying books of our own or even of the Library, it does little harm, and sometimes much good, to call attention to the important passages by a pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage...
...decide what an amateur really is. It would seem that some body of men might take the matter in hand, and give a decisive answer to this very puzzling conundrum. When an American committee announce that "this regatta is open only to amateurs," we always find in the next paragraph, "we define an amateur to be," etc., etc. Nothing could be fairer or plainer than this, and unless Henley really fear us it would be well for her to stop this dodging business, and publish her definition. The Columbia crew sail for England on May 22, but they will hardly...