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...Initiation Supper of the Phi. B. K. will take place shortly after the semi-annuals...
Head Waiter. - Can't smoke here, gentlemen. If I don't cognize you, they 'll take cognizance of me. I am sorry, but I must...
...disparity in the tact of impartation between the tutors alluded to, but that does not warrant the statements or conclusions of J. C., '81. If a student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college with a worse fit in mathematics, as a general thing, than any other subject, and the struggles against conditions in the Freshman year, in which too much mathematics is crowded, creates no sympathy...
THERE is a growing tendency among certain of the professors to weed out a large number of the men who take their elective by giving very low marks and discouraging any who wish to join after the term begins. This usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some...
...call the attention of the athletes in the University to the Columbia Games, which are to take place during the holidays. This plan of allowing members of other colleges to enter seems to us one of the best that has yet been devised on this side of the water. Not only does it promote acquaintance and a friendly feeling among men from different parts of the country, but it should also tend to improve our records, and eventually make them equal, or even surpass, those of the English Universities. The spirit of competition ought to draw out the best efforts...