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Somebody or other once said that if a couple of Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves...
...LATE writer in one of the College papers gave the results of some desultory readings in the Catalogue, and advised the public in general to spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty...
...time when every moment was precious proved a painful and irritating task. The Faculty have succeeded this year in crowding seventy-two examinations into eighteen days, and can congratulate themselves that they have thus made the work harder than ever before. They should therefore more than ever take pains to be considerate in such minor matters...
...Harvard College an elective course is offered in Political Economy, but it is made so difficult, and goes into details to such an extent, as to greatly diminish the number of those who take advantage of it. What is wanted is not an advanced course for the few, but an elementary course for all. Once the foundations of the science are mastered, and well impressed upon the mind, the superstructure will come of itself by observation and experience...
...risk of being prosy, I cannot refrain from giving. Never use tobacco in society, and remember before entering a drawing-room always to chew cloves or something of a similar nature. Be particular in little things; do not throw off your collar because you are warm, nor take off your collar because it has begun to melt. Such small points are too apt to be laughed at at Neophogen as over-refinements. Be careful, yet simple in your dress. A brass collar-button is better than a scarlet necktie. Do not lounge with...