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Among young contributors writings of superior merit in the use of language cannot be expected; style is formed by long-continued practice; and since witty productions depend to a considerable extent upon the use of language and upon style, it cannot be expected that those who are but tyros in the art of writing will find their forte in humor...
...Geyser opens with a homely appeal from "Uncle Ike" to close the "hell-holes," or, in Cambridge vernacular, beer saloons, and follows it up with a heart-rending wail over tobacco; having, apparently, just discovered that its use is "alarmingly prevalent." It tells the following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts...
...Williams Vidette gives an exciting account of the hair-breath escape of two Sophomores, who were almost caught by the Prex. while smoking. All boarding-school boys will sympathize with them. We advise Williams students who use the weed to read Mr. Dick Swiveller, on the modes of escaping detection...
...Eternity Club.""We the undersigned hereby solemnly promise to abstain from the use - medicinal or otherwise - of all intoxicating liquors, meaning all liquors with any percentage whatever of alcohol; also from the use of tobacco, opium, and hot lemonade; also from all profanity and obscene conversation for all time and eternity." - Amherst Student...
...standard set for the guidance of those who have the making of them in charge, and none will be accepted which fall below this standard. The negatives from which the heliotypes are to be made will be taken expressly for the purpose, thereby producing a better effect than the use of photographic negatives would give. Some have been already taken, and will probably be placed on exhibition within a few days...