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...examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application. If, on the other hand, he has done well, it is equally important that he should be encouraged in his endeavors. Men look at marks in different lights. One may think that...
...appeared of late in the Spirit of the Times written by a Cornell correspondent, which are full of the most unwarranted attacks on Yale and Harvard. It would, perhaps, be better to treat his remarks with the silent contempt they deserve, but we feel that it is of the utmost importance to preserve kindly feeling between the two colleges, and therefore we cannot let it pass unnoticed. That this gentleman expresses the opinions of his college in the matter we do not believe, and yet it is singular that he should have been allowed to go on writing...
...whom fellowship at school or mere chance has thrown together, and who are not qualified for any of the three main cliques, either in manners, muscle, or brain. Each of these many sets looks down on all the others, or affects to; and the result is, not the utmost good feeling...
...hardly sat down to whist in the parlor when my tormentor took a seat beside me, and gave me directions about playing my hand. I remonstrated with him, but to no purpose; he assured me, with the utmost candor, that his mamma liked to have him look over people's hands so as to learn how to play, and his father liked to have him watch and see who did the cheating...
THREE years ago several of the leading clergymen of Boston occupied, on different Sunday evenings, the Chapel pulpit; and the result was that on these occasions the Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. At Cambridge Sunday is at best a dull day, especially when the cold weather prevents us from attending church in Boston; and if means were taken to enable the students to hear, on successive Sunday evenings, such men as Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett Hale, and James Freeman Clarke, the service would be thoroughly appreciated by the students...