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...less ridiculous than bygone times, although it may outrun them in a thousand other absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar...
...Library Bulletins will be out the beginning of next week. Those who have not yet put down their names for them are requested to do so as early as possible...
...been the practice of some students, when they found that a book which they wanted had been engaged for the night, to take the book from the Library without getting it charged. In the morning it would be brought back and put in its place as stealthily as it had been taken away. The injustice of such a practice is apparent, and the self-respect of the students should insure its immediate discontinuance...
HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity...
...Just put one hand - why dost thou fear...