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...Each summer, then, shows half a dozen aspirants at the Library poring over huge, dusty volumes in the sultry Cambridge heat. They are very mysterious about their work, and never acknowledge the faintest intentions of writing a Bowdoin dissertation; but they always inquire eagerly, "Are many going to write this year, and who do you think the examiners will be?" In midsummer they disappear, bury themselves in some hole for the rest of the vacation, and bring back in September a pile of drearily learned manuscript, the result of the summer's grind...
...word "Harvard" to their club, since by doing so they make it a representative body, - a thing that it emphatically is not. While we condemn such practices as vigorously as we know how, we do not wish to judge special cases so harshly. The "Harvard Arion Quartette," of last summer's fame, probably never thought in what a false light they were showing the College, and what injustice they were doing the Glee Club. It was stated in the New York papers, we believe, that the quartette "was composed of the best musical talent at Harvard," - a statement that...
WHAT a change it is to return from one's summer wanderings to the bustle and hurry of college life! Everything presents such a rude contrast to the things we had become accustomed to during the summer. In a week or two, to be sure, we have dropped into the old ruts, and are going along as smoothly as if we had never been away, but for the first few days everything seems strange...
...unpleasant is it to have to get up and go to prayers! Our own personal experience in this matter has not been very extensive, but we can easily imagine what it must be. We are happy to say that we made the acquaintance of a very gentlemanly physician this summer, who told us never to be out in the morning until after prayer-time. We promised to obey his instructions faithfully...
Observe the new - fledged Sophomore also. What a change since last June! He has had the whole summer to ruminate on his new honors, and is proud in the consciousness that there is some one below him now. He carries his cane with an easy grace, and looks down with unutterable contempt on the despised Freshman...