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...regime to which the scholars are subjected. In the morning - at five o'clock in summer, at five and a half in winter - the drum beats the signal for rising. Twenty minutes are allowed for dressing; then everybody descends to study. The scholars take their places at their desks, that of the master occupying a platform from whence he can see everything that goes forward. Breakfast follows, then recreation, and after that recitations; and the whole day is thus divided between study, eating, recitation, and recreation. Every exercise is indicated by the roll of the drum. All is done literally...
...Springfield last summer must find it hard to believe that there is anything else which can rouse such an enthusiasm for boating affairs as was stirred up by the race at that time. There were far more Freshmen at Springfield than men from any other one class, and the interest was such that there was not a man but wished either to be on the crew himself or to express his sympathy with the oarsmen. The result of the race by no means killed this interest, and the manner in which the defeat was borne gave some idea...
...have it on good authority that one of those rustic Aggies, living in West Springfield, raised last summer one hundred and fifty mullein-plants, under the hallucination that they were tobacco. - Review...
ALTHOUGH our College has so decisively declared itself against engaging in an intercollegiate literary contest, such as is proposed for the coming summer, we confess to having many lingering regrets for the somewhat inconsiderate determination at which we so hastily arrived. We think that these are shared by quite a large number of our fellow-students, who are curious to see how our men would stand in comparison with those of other colleges, and to find out whether we are really much worse off for our lack of collegiate instruction in writing and speaking, which we have so often been...
...Taking novels and the novelist as a theme, he spoke of the great advantage of a course of general reading in college. In reply to the fifth toast, "The Boating Interest," Mr. D. C. Bacon gave a short statement of the plans of the University Crew for the coming summer, and said that although the class had been somewhat unfortunate in losing a good many of its boating men, still "seventy-six" in all probability would have a crew on the river in the spring. As nearly every one of the speakers had alluded in one way or another...