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Secondly, restrain your inclination to converse with your co-warders, and keep as rigidly silent as we poor devils are forced to be. We fully appreciate that the vast ideas you get from the psychological study afforded by scores of wrinkled brows and bent forms; but we beg of you to endure your thoughts until the examination is done, and then you may freely unburden your minds. If ludicrous things happen, laugh inside and look serious; your ribs will benefit by the practice...
...thoughtful audience. It is hardly an admitted trait of the gentleman, and such I presume, these men consider themselves and wish us to consider them, to express themselves in public in such strong, not to say coarse language. Let there be more care by the captains to restrain themselves and their men in the near future and no more complaint need be heard...
Harvard is not the only place where students celebrate occasionally. At Yale last Saturday, a senior was arrested and held in bonds for assaulting an officer who endeavored to restrain the ardor of the students at the celebration of the appointment of Prof. Phelps...
...freshmen is not among the improbabilities, we wish gently to hint that the celebration ensuing would be more satisfactory for all concerned if it were to be kept within the bounds prescribed by the circular issued by the faculty. We all know that it is no easy task to restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform...
...government depends on the active political influence of educated intelligence, and that parties are means, not ends. It is entirely non-partisan in its organization, and is not to be used for any other purpose than the awakening of an intelligent interest in government methods and purposes, tending to restrain the abuse of parties and to promote party morality. Among its organizers are numbered Democrats. Republicans and Independents, who differ among themselves as to which party is best fitted to conduct the government...