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...BURNETT, Capt.A collection of papers by the students of John Hopkins University, upon the general subject of the science of logic, edited and arranged by Professor C. S. Pierce, has been published by Little, Brown & Co., and bears the title of "Studies in Logic...
...lecture, suddenly arrested his flow of oratory, and addressing one of the students, said, "Pray, Mr. Johnson, what is your opinion of the position of the animals just described, in the created scale?" "Mr. Johnson" was forced to say that "really he had no views whatever on the subject." Whereupon the professor, turning to a second unattentive student - who had evidently not caught "Mr. Johnson's" reply or its purport - said, "Mr. Smith, what is your opinion of the position of these animals in the classified series?" "Oh, sir," replied the innocent Smith, "my opinions exactly coincide with those just...
American college humor seems to be an object of discussion among the various papers of the country. The founding of the new paper, Life, which was understood to be an offspring of college publications has brought this subject prominently before the press...
...York Times fulminates on the subject as follows: "The total absence of any sense of humor among the students of American colleges is a very curious phenomenon. From the time that the American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth...
...subject of college songs also troubles the Times man. "There is no patriot who does not blush when the subject of American college songs is mentioned. Not one gleam of humor can be found among them; and with the exception of two or three, the music of which is German, they are without any musical merit. With his curious ignorance of humor, the undergraduate believes that certain of these songs are humorous. What must be the mental condition of the person who holds that it is funny to repeat in unmusical chorus the words 'co-ca-che-lung, che-lung...