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...think I 'll say good morning...
...action of a member of the Faculty in preventing recently the Sophomore societies from performing parts of their usual initiation, calls for some comment, we think. It has been the custom of these societies for years to shout out in the Delta the names of the first ten elected from the Freshman class, and then, forming in procession, to march through the Yard singing. That the singing is not as rich in harmony as it is in volume is a lamentable fact we are forced to admit; but we can hardly believe that the sensitive nerves of the College were...
...translation from Alfred de Musset, and criticise it (favorably) as original. Though translations are easy enough to write, we had noticed this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem in the Lit. ("A Counterfeit Presentment") as "a work of care and difficulty to the writer, which those only who have attempted this style of verse can appreciate; and naturally unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned...
...impropriety of the verses; but I finally found an explanation, - the tutor was unmarried. However, that did n't account for other omissions, so I was forced to suppose that we Freshmen were treated as very young boys, because the tutor did n't think we were yet "men," in spite of our own very decided opinion to the contrary. "Well," said I, "in the electives next year, at any rate, this over-delicacy will be done away with, and a beautiful passage will not be passed over because in it a spade happens to be called by its right...
...Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading in the class what he has just read outside in preparing the lesson. The instructor's motive, then, in being so exceedingly particular is, probably, to avoid all laughter and disorder. To this I can only say, after the manner of a parable...