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...following gentlemen of the Senior Class will deliver Commencement parts next Wednesday...
...properly pursue the various courses in history of the Junior and Senior years, the instructors in that department consider necessary a sufficient knowledge of German to enable a man to use text and reference books in that language. It has been found hitherto that a man might diligently study German for two years, and at the end of that time be unfitted - so far as German was concerned - to take either of the courses in history. The reason is, that what has been read in the regular courses has been mostly or wholly poetry and easy fiction, the styles...
...rumored that gratuitous offers have been made by members of the Senior Class to place some English sparrows in the yard. Such a course would soon and effectually rid the trees of the pest. Why an offer of this kind, since there would be little or no expense to the College, should not be gladly accepted is hard to conjecture. It would be well for the Juniors, "by and with the advice and consent of the Faculty," to take precautions early, lest the Yard may present a similar sorry appearance on their Class...
...that I am surrounded by disagreeable fellows whom I don't even wish to know, all because of this new idea, so prevalent among the Faculty, of abolishing class distinctions and discouraging class feeling, and of making the privileges of the Freshman even greater than those of the Senior. An undergraduate, even, writing in a late Advocate, harping upon the somewhat stale theme, "When the College is merged into the University," etc., expresses serious objections to class feeling because the outside world, "hard, cold, and avaricious, recognizes no such sentimentalities." What then? Must we make our little college world "hard...
...always glad to receive an exchange which is not in the 'ring.' We open it with a sense of security against meeting the 'Enviable Mr. Vassar!' and the means of self-delusion employed by the Vassar Senior pining for masculine society. The University Herald, in its excellent hints to its successors, recommends that a few small items be always set up to be ready to complete a column in case of need. We should judge that most of the college periodicals have the above-mentioned stereotyped into permanencies, and introduce them, if need be, on every page of their publications...