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...price of each book and every article of stationery is determined, relatively to the ordinary retail price, by the terms of the various agreements that have been made by the superintendent with the firms by whom we are supplied, it would require a detailed statement of these prices to show the exact advantage of the members of the society over other persons...
...outside world and with jealous New Yorkers as an advertisement for Life, but we must think it to be in questionable taste appearing in the columns of Life itself. By appealing to sectional jealousy and popular prejudice in endeavoring to avoid all imputation of amateurishness Life seems to show a guilty self-consciousness and extreme terror of detection...
...religious training? If the college answers that its principle involves this training from all, why are some excepted from the application of the principle? Because these so excepted receive religious training at home? But in a large majority of cases they do not. Statistics collected by the college itself show this to be a fact. Do not the regulations show a huge partiality in this respect? To be consistent should not the college insist that compulsory religious exercises be carried on in the homes of those who, while in college, live at home? Or, perhaps, more strictly, should...
...first place, this is in a large number of instances not the case, and where it is true the society is obviously the cause, and no one can doubt that its existence is necessary to keep the prices down. Such criticisms of the society are not only absurd but show a want of public spirit. But that carefully considered criticisms and suggestions from the members of the society may be of great value to the management cannot be doubted, and such criticisms and suggestions should be brought forward at the coming meeting...
Quarrels among gentlemen are certainly unfortunate, but unless the correspondent can show how they can be avoided, except by abject submission to the terms of our antagonist, I do not see what is to be done. The writer relieves our minds by informing us "that the majority of graduates, and he believes, undergraduates, desire that the race shall be rowed squarely and fairly." I hope that it is not the Boat Club or the graduate committee that he suspects of any desire to row it in any other way. He wishes "that the arrangements should be settled in private...