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...really beginning the term on Friday has, it seems to us, been fully demonstrated. In the first place, the students do not get back; the temptation to put off one's return to college until the beginning of the next week is more than average flesh and blood can resist. In the second place, the instructors do not hold their recitations, or, if they do, only for a few moments as a matter of form. We do not wish to blame them for this, for it is only natural to be unwilling to go through the form of a recitation...
...respectfully petitions to be excused for his absence from recitations from Monday to Saturday inclusive, as he was suffering from an aggravated attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, combined with severe swollen tonsilitis and a 'cataracticus cum auge.'" Granted. Of course it was. I cannot see how any one could resist the appeal of such an accumulation of diseases...
...bewildered; even if they do not forget the number of the room they are looking for, they generally get into the wrong entry, and wander aimlessly around until some one comes to their rescue. The difficult question to answer is, what material is stout enough to resist the attacks of the gentlemen who prowl around in search of trophies. Ordinary cards are entirely out of the question. We are of the opinion that black letters painted on a white background of tin, nailed quite high, would be conspicuous enough, and certainly out of the way of all but very determined...
...cannot resist giving two quotations from a poem in the Tufts Collegian, entitled "The Wreck...
...going to press, rebukes us for a levity which would be objectionable on the score of taste alone, and for which we hasten to express our sincere regret. A college paper, as the Courant justly says, is not the proper place for a religious discussion. But we cannot resist the temptation to say a few words on this matter, especially as it has occupied so much space in our recent exchanges. Religious feeling cannot be criticised and judged like other things; yet, although the semi-familiar manner in which religious matters are referred to in the Yale and Princeton papers...