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...contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother Goose seem merrier than they really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIZABETH GOOSE. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...semi-annuals, or later, and the constant changing from one course to another, are certainly injurious to the student himself, and are also a source of great annoyance at the office. As to the fact that it is impossible to obtain good marks under certain instructors, it would seem as if the proper way to avoid this difficulty would be by specifying the courses of these instructors as extras at the outset, since there need be no hesitation in so doing, if they, as the Advocate states, are confessedly unfair as regards marks. As we have before said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...literary monthlies seem to be universally reverenced by the "college press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...this is the meagreness of the instruction given, and the secondary cause is the method adopted by the instructors. Fifteen minutes a week to the student, if he be a Senior or Junior, is little better than nothing, and unless a different arrangement is made next year, it would seem advisable to keep up the farce no longer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUCTION IN ELOCUTION. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...fact that the score stood at one time seventeen to nothing, the Nine did not commit the fatal blunder of losing their presence of mind, but worked away till they had obtained the four runs which saved the defeat from being a disgrace. This week the Nine seem to have discovered that hard work at practice is the only means of salvation, and it is to be hoped that we may see a little more practice such as took place last Monday. Lounging about the field and catching an occasional fly is not the way to prepare for a contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1880 | See Source »