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Much dissatisfaction has been caused among the men who take English XII by the announcement that daily themes would be required throughout the recess in which examinations are held. There is to be sure, no mid-year examination in this course for the nature of the work renders one unnecessary, but the imposition of daily themes is none the less unwarranted on that account, since the official announcement of the mid-year examinations is headed by the following statement...
...justice to many men who have no lockers in the gymnasium it is no more than right that a work should be said against the habit some men have of engaging lockers and seldom using them. To be sure these men pay for their lockers, but if they do not use them they should not deprive others of using them and ought to give them up. Speaking of gymnasium inconveniences, we cannot help bringing up that time-worn topic-the wretched condition of the shower-bath. The application to in of the term "totally inadequate" is not too strong...
...popular religious consciousness, in so far as it is sure of any divine principle in things, is likely to take the form of a simple Optimism, which declares that all must be somehow for the best in a world ruled by Divine Providence; and that, in consequence, evil must be merely an illusion. This view has an element of deeper truth; but, as it is usually stated, Optimism of this sort is extremely superficial. No optimism can really stand the test of experienced reason, until it has appreciated the genuine force of Pessimism...
...this term is not that we should sit down and spend our time in idle gossip over our "prospects"; it does not mean that we should grind our teeth and declare ourselves beaten from the start; nor does it mean that we should smile blandly because we feel sure of a victory before the teams have met. It means that we should go to work and stay at work and not leave a stone unturned up to the moment of the contest. Theories are at best merely in the air; it is hard work which is the whole matter. Graduates...
...legal right to privacy distinct from the right to property, and rapidly becoming of great importance in the age of newspaper intrusion and instantaneous photography. They point out that a right to privacy is recognized by statute in France, and ought to be in America, so that a sure remedy could be secured in case of the violation of a man's privacy beyond the limit to which public duties or aspirations may give the people a right to learn his past record. "The Police Power and Interstate Commerce" is ably discussed by Mr. William R. Howland. The number...