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...recent issue of the N. Y. Times was a very pertinent article on incompetent lectures. It was called forth by the press criticisms on the delivery of Canon Farrar, who expresses himself as pleased with the frankness of the American papers. There have been a number of English lecturers in this country who are deplorably deficient in the rudiments of good delivery, and however much they are popular in their own country, to gain respect for an American audience, they must at least be able to express themselves in a moderately effective manner. The day is fast coming when...
There are many kinds of grinds, Not only the college but the world at large possesses them. There is the longhaired grind, (the sweet girl-graduate) the bald-headed grind, and the grindstone. It is rumored in Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind...
...Record recently contained the following very interesting Harvard note: "Several instructors omitted their lectures to-day." This note suggests to us perhaps one of the pleasantest features of a college course. Where the Record euphoniously says "omitted," the ordinary college student would murderously say "cut." Without "cuts" the college man would find his life almost, perhaps quite unbearable; a statement, which is well proved by the fact that where cuts are not given occasionally, the student is very likely to take them semi-occasionally. Of course the conclusion follows at once that it is policy for instructors to do some...
...recent article in one of the leading weeklies throws light on a side of German student-life, which is not often touched upon in the frequent accounts of the manners and customs of our Teutonic fellow-laborers in the large universities. Reference is made to the great prevalence of poverty among the students, and the increase of pauperism under the fostering care of immense charitable organizations...
...reprint the following editorial from the Boston Advertiser of yesterday, because, aside from its tribute to the worth of a recent graduate, it coincides so exactly with our views of the position in politics which collegebred men ought to take...