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...this year to decide whether they will awaken to a lively sense of the proprieties of the case, and by adopting the cap and gown revive a custom as beautiful as it is old, or by following in the path which the folly of a class of comparatively recent date has marked out, will still continue the wearing of a costume utterly inappropriate, and entirely devoid of all those historical associations which render the cap and gown so interesting in the eyes of every scholar...
...initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water was dispensed with, owing to a recent drowning accident, and he ate eighteen tarts within the time, having forty-five seconds to spare. Swiddle is a handsome man, who dresses to perfection, ordering his clothes from Smiler & Compa, Bond St., W., and he never by any chance loses his temper. He is the most thoroughly gentlemanly person that...
...recent lecture the Professor of the Fine Arts informed the members of his elective that he should not require them to hand in their blank books previous to the examination, and that he should request the Faculty to allow him to dispense with proctors during the examination. These remarks, coming as they did from an instructor who has always shown himself exceptionally kind and considerate in his relations to the students, as well within the recitation-room as without it, were welcomed by many as a sign that some members of the Faculty, at any rate, while desiring to raise...
...recent award of the Bowdoin prizes for dissertations of excellence reminds us that the incentives to exertion in the fields of literature are confined, with us, entirely to prose. We have had here, in the past ten years, many men who have given evidence of ability to write very good poetry, but we have not yet found one who possessed both the means and the disposing frame of mind to encourage the rising lights in the poetic firmament. At Oxford the prize poem is something which is struggled for, and the successful man is justly admired. That such a prize...
...skimming over the surface of life in Cambridge, your brilliant contemporary, the Lampoon, is shocked to find us much given to hypocrisy. If this charge is true, let us hide our diminished heads. The revelations made this winter concerning the undergraduates of Harvard are fully as startling as the recent disclosures in Washington. We have been shown to be oligarchs, indifferent, pessimistic, given to "European clothes" and Eastlake furniture, "a cigarette outside and low thoughts within"; and to all this is now added the epithet "hypocrite." It is the straw which breaks the camel's back. But before we succumb...