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...rule, examinations are not regarded by the outside world as occasions on which a display of humor may be expected. But if exceptions prove the rule, then may examinations claim to afford a very rich fund of ludicrous incidents. One of the frequent causes of humor at examinations is of course the ignorance of candidates. A person was once asked the question at an Oxford examination, "Who was Esau?" "Esop," said he, "was a man who wrote fables, and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash!" Another student was asked to give some account...
...general physical development, often excel in their own specialties men who only train for one branch of athletics. The best examples of such facts, said Dr. Sargent, were to be seen in the superior physical condition of the men now in training for the general excellence prize. The same rule holds good in matters of the intellect. Variety of studies is an excellent thing. A man who devotes himself to only one or two subjects can hardly be said to be worthy of a college degree...
...colleges comprising the association evidently expect that all the boats will be of the same length, for the crews are to start by their sterns and finish by their bows; as this is the simplest and easiest way of judging a race, this rule will probably remain in force until a change is rendered necessary by some college making an innovation similar to that made by Yale...
...joins, he stands by that and no other through his college course and as an alumnus. There is no such thing conceivable as being in two fraternities at once. Resignations and expulsions are exceedingly rare; intense devotion to the welfare of the fraternity here and elsewhere is the rule on the part of the members. Over all their operations a veil of general secrecy is cast; the location of the meeting hall is unknown, and the very existence of the fraternity seldom referred to by its members in conversation. Many fellows, moreover, have no friends outside of the fraternity...
...allowed to get their books after seven o'clock in the evening. It may be a slight inconvenience to a man who happens to come after seven o'clock for the books he has ordered not to be able to get them, but it is a published rule of the society, necessary to the careful and economical conduct of its business, that the cash account shall be made up at 7 P. M. each day. After this, of course, no business can be transacted...