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...reads this piece can fail to conclude that the writer has a personal grievance. In his indignation he has, I think, forgotten the facts; for he implies that the rhetoric "class occupies itself in the recitation-room with stamping and clapping." There has been no clapping...
Although perfectly aware that an individual opinion has no weight with others, I will say that I think the rhetoric course has been interesting and valuable. The instructor has done his best to make the recitations in a dry subject entertaining, and I think he has succeeded...
...give him everything; he will give me his company for nothing, and take us dyspeptic students away from our books with his prattle. And bless the old pedler who will sell me his oranges and throw in an hour's talk about his life, giving me something to think of outside my own, and something to laugh at besides college jokes. Bless the dog-man who will tell me about the latest addition to "Missy's" family. Bless the delicate young creature who will kiss me if I buy a basket (I would n't buy one). Let more come...
...undergraduate indignation we are well aware; but when we turn from the instructors who keep us in what seems to be unnecessary suspense, and contemplate those whose marking system is a mystery to all but themselves, we are tempted to remonstrate once again. And when, in addition, we think upon the course of those who refuse to acquaint us with our marks at all, we feel sure that this final growl on our part is pardonable. We would recommend that the College press be still more chary of its praise, if the adulation of a three-line editorial has such...
...increasing the athletic interest here, which is at present so far below what it can and ought to be, we suggest to the Athletic Association the plan of instituting Challenge Cups. The offer of two really handsome and valuable cups, one for walking and one for running, would, we think, meet with immediate favor. Any one winning the cup should have his name engraved upon it, each time he won, and, after being won three successive times by the same man, it should become his private property. The distance in each case should be such as to equalize, as much...