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...jurare in verba magistri, which is quite superfluous, as no one would ever accuse it of such an improper thing; and in the April number is an article by Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight on "Intercollegiate Regattas, Hurdle-Races, and Prize Contests," to which I wish to call the unregenerate reader's attention. Knowing that it is too much to expect the above desperate character to read anything so respectable as the original, I venture to give a few selected bits, very much as the members of the B. L. B. U. E. T. A. used to print the decalogue...
...with much hesitation that the writer introduces once more into the columns of a college paper a subject so ancient and threadbare as the college goody. But he begs the reader to restrain his indignation for a moment, when he shall learn that the only reason for the writer's presumption is a laudable desire that this article may be the last upon the subject, and because after profound meditation he has hit upon a plan at once simple and effective for making the goody of to-day a thing of the past, and the goody of to-morrow...
...reader has had the patience to follow me so far, I will recommend to the suffering public in general, and to the Bursar in particular, a new system by which the work of the goody may be rendered efficient, and our rooms assume an appearance of cleanliness...
...Patient reader, I look forward with you to the time when the virtues of the goody may be extolled by the collegiate muse, and when we shall recognize in the neatness and order of our rooms the beneficent hand of an "efficient" goody...
...their reportorial pens. It is very seldom, indeed, that an article appears in the Advocate or Crimson from which the public can get an erroneous impression of any phase of our college life. But when one does appear that admits of more than one rendering, and allows the reader to draw his own inferences, it cannot fail to have considerable influence in the wrong direction. Such an article as this was that entitled "The Lower Classes" in the last Crimson...