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...untrue statement: "He says that because we pay over twice as much, on an average, for our rooms as they do at Yale, our rooms are therefore twice as good as those at Yale," In my article therefore is nothing that could even be misunderstood for such a remark. I am sorry to be obliged to say that the Advocate writer, in attributing the above words to me, has seriously compromised his reputation for veracity...
...after the trying ordeal is over, and the "pictures in little" are ready to be scattered among friends, how very unsatisfactory they prove! From the young lady, who bestows her photograph with the remark "Are n't they perfectly awful?" to the acquaintances who agree with her for the nonce, but secretly decide that the picture "flatters dreadfully," there seems to be no one really contented. One expects, of course, to have his pictures criticised, but such criticism is often a delicate matter, and requires some tact, - more tact, at least, than was shown by the man who, on seeing...
...REMARK is frequently heard to the effect that college graduates do not stand on an equality with other young men of their own age when they enter active life. An opinion so sweeping should carry with it little weight, but there are many who accept a conclusion of this kind without taking the trouble to analyze it. As we all know, there are not two men alike, and when a large body of persons are described as being similar in any respect it is well to investigate the foundations on which the assertion is based before we accept it finally...
...years of continued articles and remonstrances before walks were laid in the Yard. It is to be hoped that as fire-escapes are more important than flagstones, the Corporation will take a shorter time to procure them. During the Hollis fire an officer of the College was heard to remark: "This is quite remarkable; we thought we were safe from fire." That occasion has demonstrated that we are not more safe from it than the rest of the human race, and it is therefore high time to think of rendering such a misfortune as little dangerous to life as possible...
...Yale Lit., speaking of the Lampoon, makes the following naive remark...