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...reported that an association has been formed in college, the members of which style themselves "The Highland Flings." This association will appear, on April 11, in short socks and Scottish kilts. Students may register their names, and see specimens of plaids at 25 Holworthy...
...hinted at as being disagreeable, by the medium of feet in conjunction with the floor, whoever is seen making any disturbance is pounced upon by the Directors and expelled or suspended, to serve as a warning to others. What right the Directors have to do this we fail to see, unless it be for the reason that as the authority to govern in the Hall has been deputed to them, they feel bound to exercise it on the student, rather than take what would appear to rational beings to be the most natural course, namely, to remove the casus belli...
...idea of visitors coming to the Hall at meal-time is no less absurd than it would be for people to flock to one of our large hotels to see the guests eat. However, if they must come to the Hall, they ought to make no distinction between it and a hotel, and they ought to conform to the same rules of politeness which would govern them in such a place...
...very often happens that it is only when an opportunity is irretrievably lost that we appreciate its value and importance, and see our own folly in neglecting it. Judging the future by the past, the same will be the case, I fear, with many of us in regard to improving the opportunities offered to us by the College in shape of our Evening Readings. When the readings in Shakespeare were given last year, though at an hour very uncomfortable to many of us, the interest was strong, and the room was crowded almost to suffocation; but now a course...
Were such an opportunity of hearing the masterpieces of ancient and modern literature offered us ten years from now, I am confident that not one of us would willingly let the opportunity go by. It is only ignorance and carelessness that causes such indifference as we see now. Mr. R. W. Emerson has said that he rarely reads a book in the original if he can get a good translation of it. Whether this is the best policy or not, all men do not agree; but certainly in hearing a Greek tragedy, for instance, translated and explained...