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...obliged to notice an offence of the same nature last year, when the shingle of the St. Paul's society was stolen. But few words need be said on the subject now. We would merely say to the freshmen, for no upper classman would have played such a contemptible trick, that one's reputation for "nerve" is not to be increased by such means, and that if the perpetrator of this outrage becomes known, his college career will not be materially aided...
...great was the demand for the account of the recent trick played by the Cornell sophomores on the freshmen, that the Cornell Sun printed two extra editions...
...these regulations the full measure of their unconditional endorsement." If it be not considered a piece of undergraduate impertinence by the young lion of the Spirit who penned the above, we would like to suggest that his dictum here stated is unmitigated dogmatism. The familiar rhetorical and journalistic trick of assuming the concurrence of all good and wise men in one's own view of the question, thereby implying the utter folly of your opponent's, is unworthy a journal of the character of the Spirit...
...committee would probably carefully mind its own business and let the students alone. The fifth resolution, in regard to no man engaging in sports more than four years, is some more padding. The conference committee wanted to make a show of having done something and resorted to that familiar trick of newspaper men of filling in with unimportant matter. The fourth and fifth resolutions are, therefore, in themselves comparatively harmless...
There is no denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever...