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...suspended, to serve as a warning to others. What right the Directors have to do this we fail to see, unless it be for the reason that as the authority to govern in the Hall has been deputed to them, they feel bound to exercise it on the student, rather than take what would appear to rational beings to be the most natural course, namely, to remove the casus belli by prohibiting visitors from Memorial Hall during meal-time...
...that frequency could well afford to be lessened. To us, many of the Faculty's doings seem blamable; but we cannot or will not justly appreciate their reasons for thus acting, and would it not be better to devote an occasional column to the good deeds of the body, rather than half the paper to a querulous enumeration of its atrocities...
...been awarded at examinations is by no means confined to the class of people who regard their studies as necessary evils. A number of men of high standing are very anxious to know what the success of their work has been; and a knowledge of marks has an influence rather beneficial than otherwise upon all. If the mark is high, it is an incentive to push on, in hope of the Phi. B. K., or of a Commencement part, or at least of the Rank List. If it is low, it is equally an incentive to improvement, for nobody likes...
...first place, it seems rather parsimonious in the College to throw so large a portion of the expense of Class Day on the class itself. Unquestionably the immediate benefit accrues to the graduating class and their friends, but indirectly the College gains, for it is brought favorably before the public, and the love for Harvard with old college-men is fostered by the maintenance of the gala-days of their Alma Mater, Class Day and Commencement. The Yard is always cleaned for Class Day, - perhaps the Class will appreciate its appearance the more if they know...
...read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous sin of wearing ulsters and smoking cigarettes, and whose moral character, as might be expected from an exterior so intensely vulgar, is flashy in the extreme, being chiefly made...