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...aitegraph cannot get out of order, unless it rust for want of constant use. The cut attachment will last a lifetime, and the register is warranted never to make mistakes nor wear out. Each petition will be original and convincing. The Freshman petition will be timid, uncertain, but innocent; the Sophomore, ingenious, but insincere; the Junior, reckless; the Senior, independent, but having a "matter-of-course" air. From a moral point of view the new device is unobjectionable, since no one will be responsible for the nature of his petition...
Love hath a strange, uncertain flight...
...reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property, and that nobody is legally bound to provide for him, may compete for a scholarship; C. D., on the contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot...
...status of the "House clubs" for next year, although on a very uncertain basis, does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate of last week. We should think that Mr. Blakie would hardly foreclose this spring, if there was a reasonable chance of getting the rest of his money in the autumn ; and the coming of the guileless Freshman, like the first bird of spring, may be a forerunner of better times for the House Clubs. With this in view, and the expenditure of a little more energy on the part of the club secretaries, we think...
...might be classed as a Professor Intelligentiae Generalis. He taught Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, Botany, Geology, and Greek, besides occasionally some other branches when either of the other two professors happened to be ill, and he spent his evenings in reading themes. The college laboratory, too, was in a rather uncertain condition. There was one large room in the building, - the college building was really very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump...