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...found five already in the secret. But the triumph was reserved for Friday night, when "Aida" brought them out twenty strong. With what pride did the standard-bearers look upon the rowing men, who were selected to bring in the victorious Radames; and in the vocal line, who can think of the stirring chorus, "Gloria all' Egitto e ad Iside!" without remembering that the volume was increased by Undergraduate lungs? But what a fall of pride! Do we not see one of our number among the Ethiopian prisoners forcibly suggesting the end man at the negro minstrels? And then...
...successful would not be repeated, a favor to the students was intended, whose future continuance would depend upon their appreciation of it. If the numbers constantly present at these exercises next year should not be greatly diminished, the next Senior Class might expect to have the same privilege. We think that two considerations have been overlooked. In the first place, the experiment will be tried next year under peculiarly unfavorable auspices, simply because it is an experiment. The reaction so common under all similar circumstances, when any restraint is first removed, will probably take place, and the students will probably...
...would be so venturesome as to maintain that it inspires students very much to go to recitations, and the present coercion to our duty is only considered an evil because it is compulsion, we think, and it but occasionally conflicts with the inclination of any except the most negligent scholars. Our position is not unlike that of the Frenchman who had never been out of Paris, but when forbidden by the king to leave it, he could not rest night or day from moving heaven and earth till this liberty was restored to him. Then, returning to his customary avocations...
Thus pass their days, nor think of harm...
...cannot expect to succeed. Doubtless, many not connected with the University take more interest in these humorous productions than the undergraduates themselves, simply because they suppose that these articles apply to some circumstances, some event, which happened in college life. The editors of the college papers will not, I think, advise any one to write humorous articles; in fact, we once heard an editor remark, when asked in regard to the style of an article about to be written, "Anything but a humorous article...