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...allusions to disorderly practises, have reference to a state of things which does not now exist, and which, it is hoped, never did exist to the extent in which it is here represented. It is the privilege of all poetry to exaggerate." Harvard then, as now, also was the victim of envy and slander. How bravely and unconcernedly she has borne it all these years! We give a specimen of the wit of the Register on the subject of "Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college...
...College boys are so full of mischief that they ought to be spoken to. We shall put some of them in the "Drawer" and shut them up. It has just come to our knowledge that the learned and distinguished president of one of our colleges has been made the victim of a practical joke, which we are induced to record with the expression of our regret that the boys will do such things. It seems that the worthy president went down to Virginia, where he was personally a stranger, to attend an ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were...
...little better. Turning to the "popular side" of the rank list, the same sentiment will apply. The poor fellow who fails to pass, frequently does so by a very narrow margin, and his failure is all the more exasperating from this fact. Numberless instances might be given where the victim wildly blames himself and the instructor - usually the latter - when he thinks how near he came getting through...
...that day when the Charles R. R. R. shall blossom forth in all its wealth of accommodations. The student in the early morn cometh from his prayer meeting in the metropolis and chattereth his teeth and shivereth in the refrigerator car. The company forsooth appreciateth the freshness of his victim and desireth that it shall not spoil...
...professor conducts a "quiz" afterward, which is dreaded beyond measure. To a looker-on it is quite amusing to watch the progress of a recitation. The professor's face is immovable; she never utters a word nor makes a sign, but with stony eyes gazes at the poor victim, who blushes, stammers, becomes very much frightened, and at last sits down totally exhausted...