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...rejoice, therefore, that the students so energetically rebuked recently the unwarrantable assumption of power by a too officious official. The Directors of the Dining Hall, in branding the Bursar's action in removing one of their official bulletins as usurpation of the plainest sort, is approved not only by the students themselves, but also by all the outsiders that have heard of this disgraceful affair. However necessary it may sometimes be to overlook such petty tyranny in the case of a College official, in this case any such considerations would be out of place. This is by no means...
...suggested that an English club, as a sort, of auxiliary to the New Shakspere Society, of London, would supply a need in College...
...ever have an alarm clock? I don't mean one of the new-fangled, nickel-plated kind, but one of the homely, old-fashioned sort, with a big iron hammer for the alarm, hands with circular rings near the ends, and a long, solemn, methodistical face, having an expression of chronic melancholy, as of a confirmed dyspeptic: did you ever have one of these? No? Well, you have missed a valuable experience. My own knowledge of these articles came in a practical way, as follows...
...whole system of such undergraduate "magazining" seems to us radically wrong, and therefore are we no impartial judge. The Review publishes more good poetry; the Yale Lit. excels in literary criticism, Notabilia, and Portfolio; the Nassau inclines both to philosophy and to legendary matter of a ghostly sort, induced, as the Acta would say, by the atmosphere. But one reads these productions with a sense of dissatisfaction. Articles on weighty subjects, when published in a college paper, are compelled, for very lack of room, to be insufficient and fragmentary...
...such a man; but as this practice increases, the members may, and sometimes do, become thinned down till all those belonging are members because they are popular. In all probability they are members of some society to which it is a great distinction to belong. Men of this sort will not care for the slight honor conferred by the latter compared to that of the former society; nor will they take any care to keep up the original standard of what was a society of learning, and so they destroy all its usefulness. No society perhaps has gone...