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...ROWING-CLUB has been organized by the members of the Young Men's Christian Association Gymnasium. A boat-house will be built on Charles River this spring; but healthy exercise rather than amateur honors will be the object of the club...
...admiration for the Yale Lit. has not been unbounded, at any rate it has always been sincere. For this reason we were extremely sorry to see in the January number an inexpressibly and incomprehensibly silly production, entitled "Beatrice : A Flirtation Homily." For the amusement, or rather amazement, of those less unfortunate readers of ours who do not see the Lit., we give an outline of the story. It is that of a conceited puppy whose ideas of man, woman, and flirtation may be seen from the following quotation...
...vicious practices themselves by keeping the fact prominently in view that they are held unworthy of gentlemen, because some persons in college do not feel that this is much of an objection. But we can at least make men prefer to keep their misdoings secret rather than have the effrontery to boast of them publicly. This is a much more wholesome tone, and one that will do something toward stopping the evils themselves. To parade one's own vicious acts shows either a very childish or else a very debauched frame of mind. It is, then, the duty of those...
...could conveniently in three or four years, and of finishing off my school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder that my course does not seem entirely satisfactory. I have had a rather good time; but I am anxious now to go to some place where I shall feel that I am at least accomplishing something tangible, and where there will be something to call forth my ambition. If I speak as an individual, I think I can at least say that...
...wondered whether I had a much higher purpose in view than he confessed to, and if not, whether I should ever become so blase in regard to college life. It puzzled me most, however, to find out whether "quite a respectable portion" of the class would really be rather glad than otherwise to take their sheep-skins and walk away. I am not sure of the answer yet, but am still wondering...