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...should like to take your paper; but I think the other is gotten up in better style. With its clean white cover, and table of contents and other ornaments, it looks less like a country college paper and more like a magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...have. Take a seat. I think the way in which you young men criticise your elders is something shameful. I cannot understand how the spirit of reverence is so lacking. Your facts are often wrong. You launch out a tirade against the Faculty when the Corporation is to blame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...think that the mid-year examinations have "gained undue importance in determining our marks"; for, with voluntary recitations, no great prominence should be attached to marks for recitations, and, if we are marked chiefly by examinations, it is unfair to make our rank depend mainly on the annuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...took a ground-floor room in Holworthy, thus making sure of having no one beneath me, and having ascertained that two very quiet Seniors were above me. But I did not enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT." | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...inevitable, and sat down to read another book. Presently I saw a resident graduate who attends the course, enter the Library with a pile of books under his arm, and calmly put the two in question on the shelves. Since this happens once, it probably happens often, and I think it perfectly fair to extend to all your readers the benefit of my accidental discovery; or, rather, I should think it unfair not to do so. The disregard of conventionalities is probably not confined to resident graduates. I may also mention that a book set apart for English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIRATES IN THE LIBRARY. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »