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...seem rather overdoing it to constantly keep calling attention to the Co-operative Society, but the reluctance to join of the students who have remained non-members, necessitates another appeal for support. That only ten men out of several hundred non-members should have considered it worth their while to invest a dollar and a half apiece in an enterprise where the returns will so much more than repay them, shows how indifferent to money matters a large portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised...
...Princetonian" has rather a gloomy account of their nine's chances for the championship this year, which ends up by saying: "success for the nine is not impossible, but it does not seem probable...
...time of the examination period, as we have seen in the issues of the past week or so. What mines of wealth, in the form of many bits and shekels, must just roll into the CRIMSON'S treasury ! Tutors' notices pour in day after day, until it would seem that there was not a course in college that was not represented. What does it all signify? Does it really pay the tutors to advertise? Were I interested in the CRIMSON, I should certainly say that it paid-paid the CRIMSON. Still, I think, too, that it pays the advertisers...
...only to test ignorance; the other, and in our opinion the more important, mission is, or should be, to test knowledge. Some may argue that there is only a very slight distinction, if any at all, between the testing of ignorance and the testing of knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such argument belongs only to such men as are able sincerely to deceive themselves with a belief that they know as much, or nearly as much, or even more, that they are ignorant of. Such men are really very rare; but if we suppose that they...
...office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan and Anglo-Saxon "mind." With the abandonment of this custom, however, it would seem as if the real excuse for the use of Latin in the catalogue were no longer valiad...