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...expressive metaphor, he was "pocketed" at the very start. He stopped and claimed a foul. Mr. Lee, meantime, trotted over the course, and won the heat. The judges allowed the foul, but, inasmuch as the man who fouled was not the winner of the heat, they did not think it proper that the heat should be run over again...
...already overcrowded, and in the second place, the very evident consequence of such a step would be a rush between the two lower classes, which neither adds to the comfort of the Seniors nor to the enjoyment of the ladies, who, in spite of what the gentlemen themselves may think, do not like an exhibition of rudeness which invariably results in bloody noses and torn clothes. If, on the other hand, the Freshmen would agree to remain on the green next to Holden, and not join in a ring round the Tree, I am convinced that the Class-Day Committee...
...intention to enter into a discussion with the writer of that article, as I believe that arguments in college papers, as a rule, carry with them very little conviction in matters of this nature; but I think one of his statements, at least, should not pass unchallenged. In alluding to the influence exerted by the "popular man," he says, "It is Gosling's [the would-be 'popular man'] private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington [the real 'popular man'] has been 'jolly...
...work to do, - they are intended to furnish inducements to study. And the question is not whether the new honors are in themselves more or less valuable, but whether they are better fitted to encourage study. The writer, at least in the first part of his article, seems to think they are not; that because so many men will receive the lower grades of honors, the list will have no interest to any one. But it is not easy to see how the interest felt in honors which four or five men or which ten or twelve men only succeed...
...Freshmen think that the college papers are the originators of opinions. Poor deluded Freshmen! Public opinion, far from being the offspring of the papers, is their master; and, like Sindbad's "Old Man of the Sea," is riding them to death. If they could shake it off, they might stand up straight and grow strong. As it is, they scold vigorously at the instructors and the "marking-system," but turn their backs when some wrong appears at which the majority wink...