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...yard is unbroken, save by the whistling of some chance passer. The Glee Club saves its energies for more dignified concerts. The great secret societies no longer "sing through the yard." Even within the last four years, student song has entered upon a marked decline. It was no uncommon thing in the spring of '83 to hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass, nor was it thought a source of wonder if the Glee Club gathered on the steps of Holworthy or Matthews, and gave an hour to the entertainment...
...Other Poems." The poems are all extremely ambitious; but it would be wrong to say that many of them are not also very successful. The excellent rhythm and the charming sincerity are characteristics that are always attractive, partly because at the present time at least, they are rather uncommon. Some of these poems suggest real ability and poetic taste, Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme and metre and although many of the subjects can hardly be called new or said to be treated with any conspicuous originality, yet few will say that...
...class. Eighty-six has an unusually large number of men of good literary ability. The example of these men has been a spur, not only to their classmates, but to lower classmen. They have both improved the already existing college papers, and have founded the Monthly, a magazine of uncommon worth. On the whole, it looks as if the present time would figure in tradition, as have those years in the seventies, when the Lampoon was founded...
...country. It is at least courteous that those who have so eagerly published elaborate reports, should be as eager to publish denials of them, especially if undenied, they are likely to do injury. Such courtesy as this, however, unfortunately is far from being common, and because so uncommon is always highly appreciated...
...aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase of the subject which deserves more attention than it has ever received, and one which possesses the uncommon property of furnishing an argument on each side of the elective question. To those who think that a college education is only for putting on the finishing touches and gilding with belles lettres or polishing off with an essence of dilettanteism, such a tendency must cause the utmost consternation...