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...does seem unfortunate and unnecessary that students should be obliged to stand or be turned away at interesting lectures, intended principally for them, on account of the thronging in of Cambridge citizens unconnected with the University. If the suggestion made in the communication should be followed, that a certain number of seats at every important lecture should be reserved until five minutes before the lecture begins, many students would often be spared the disappointment of being turned away from crowded lectures or of being obliged to stand...
Some of the gentlemen who are opposed to the extension of Class Day over three days do not seem to appreciate the advantages which this arrangement offers to people coming from a distance, to see sons, or nephews or grand-sons graduate. The older folk generally want to stay for Commencement as well as Class Day and under the old regime they are obliged to fill the aching void between Friday and Wednesday as best they can. The three-day scheme, beginning of necessity on Friday, since the finals do not end till then, and lasting through Monday, offers...
STUDENTS do not seem to be aware that at 3 Linden Street they can get a fine table d'hote dinner for only 50 cts. The cooking is strictly French and the stock as good as you can get anywhere. They can get you up a nice little dinner or supper too, any time, and you ought to patronize them...
Judging from the rude and puerile conduct of certain members of Fine Arts 4, it would seem that such a course in manners should be prescribed, for evidently a sense of decorum can not be inspired in these individuals by the mere association with gentlemen...
...compares the coached debater to a chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...