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...which are little better than grunts. We have hosts of curt little vowels that seem to be the remnants of some full sounds which a continual press of business prevents us from ever completing. One of the most hybrid and unsatisfactory of these - to take an instance - is our short o, as in hot. It is quite interesting to speculate as to what the full sound can be which is swallowed before uttered in this case: is it a bark, a whoop, or a growl...
...essentially different from the ordinary feelings of an Englishman. It could even communicate its sensations in articulate sounds, and the very rattle of its inside rollers, toothed wheels, and springs, as heard when it talked, imparted to its language a genuine English accent. Again, in one of his short stories, he describes English pronunciation and language as follows: "They take a dozen monosyllables into their mouth, chew them, crunch them, spit them out again - and this is what they call speaking...
...regret want of space prevents its publication in full. The idea contained in it is this: that in the earlier part of our Academic year students are favored with a respite from hard work, when they do not need it nearly as much as at a later period. The short suspension of recitations at Thanksgiving, and the Christmas vacation, are, at least by the undergraduate mind, considered as customs productive of much good. Were it possible to devise some method by which a few days' rest could be given at a time intermediate between January and the latter part...
...College House seems to be especially exposed to fire, and the arrangement of the entries is such that, should a fire once be started, a very powerful draught would be created, which would carry the fire throughout the whole building in a very short time, cutting off all escape by the stairways...
...scanty number of Exchanges this week may, perhaps, be accounted for by the fact that many Colleges are having a short vacation at about this time. The Dartmouth Anvil has, however, made its appearance, and we may say, has come out strong, for it growls and shows its teeth at Amherst and Harvard in a most savage manner. Its scathing criticism on an account of the Boating Convention in our last issue had for its object, no doubt, the utter annihilation of the Magenta. Still, we feel in duty bound to present No. 7 to our readers, and will here...