Word: rightnesses
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...different events, others are getting up first hour's recitation; while, from the rear, a freshman regales the audience with the exquisite melody of a tin horn. Why is this irreverence? The solution is easy. By compulsion, chapel has lost its sacred character. Instead of being considered the right way to begin the day, it has degenerated into a means of avoiding a bad mark. All sacredness being lost, it is the undergraduate's privilege to get as much fun out of it as possible...
...than ever before, on account of the growth and the increasing prosperity of these schools, there is now a danger arising lest she become less of a university on account of this neglect of the pressing interests of the college proper. The patrons of the college have a right to demand that this neglect be not suffered to continue longer...
...awfullest thing that happened was when the girls got together and held an indignation meeting, so to speak. At first I was going to own right up and say it was I, but they seemed so fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I never saw such mad girls in all my life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said...
...points are all childish and badly taken. He makes nothing but general statements, which are in the power of any individual to make in support of any charge, however ludicrous. What right for instance has he to assume that the men who draw for rooms do not act in good faith? Does he suppose that every man is willing to perjure himself with the readiness with which he seems to be so familiar...
...considered after those who have never drawn at all. It would be much fairer to let the freshmen take their chances with all the rest of the men in the college and draw in the general drawing. But the one great evil is the abuse of the right of transfer. The remedy is to stop transferring of rooms. Allow no transfer and the chances will be fairer for every one. If a man draws a room and finds he cannot occupy it, let him give it up and the bursar will dispose of it. This would do away with...