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These girls think that I know everything; they call me "Mr. Tournville" when I am present, but when I am absent, "Frank." I like to watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course...
...object in referring to the prices of College rooms was to show that the present authorities of the College had no reason to call upon us for a subscription at graduation on the ground that we have not paid for what we have received here. As far as what we have received can have a money value put upon it, we have paid for it. It is no more fair to ask us to pay for all the benefit we have received from College, than it would be to ask a man to pay the author of a book...
...skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates at present would know what it meant, and it is not to be found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general...
...speaking of the prosperity of the Dining Hall Association, the President recommends the plan of having two sets of hours for meals, as was suggested by the Crimson last October, in order to accommodate twice the present number of students. He then speaks of the result of employing janitors...
PARK THEATRE. - Lawrence Barrett plays during the present week "Yorick's Love," which is " A New Play," with some changes for the better made in it. It is a very strong play and a well-written one. Yorick is one of Barrett's most successful parts. The support is evenly good, unusually so for a company that travels with a star...