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...Then our dear Alma Mater is not put to the expense of putting in underground drainage, honey...
...large amount of money has been subscribed for the team, and the prospect is that Amherst will put a very strong club in the field...
...busy in the depths of a semiannual grind. To have seventy lively young men running up and down stairs, or singing in a single room is a little apt to distract the minds of those less enjoyably engaged. At any other time of the year it could easily be put up with as an evidence of superfluous an animal spirits; but in examination time it is rather trying...
...reported that a certain college has decided to make its students pay for any desks they may hereafter disfigure by cutting. This puts a summary end in one institution to what has been hitherto an almost universal custom. Somehow, these rude signs seem to be links between the students of different generations, and every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point...
...majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that most men put their names into such publicity with any intention of some day showing them to their grandsons with "I did it, and now I am President!" or from any peculiar expectation, but rather from thoughtlessness. And on the whole we are inclined to think that any thoughtlessness which leads...