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...construction, asking him how much salary he needed, and paying all the others accordingly. What the ideal professor always says is that the merest trifle is enough for him and his family; that they are, in fact, so absorbed in study that they hardly know what they eat or wear, and that they would be ashamed of themselves if they needed much money. The actual professor is, however, a totally different person. He is mostly a modern American, fond of books and teaching, and study it may be, but also fond of such of the social and oesthetic pleasures...
According to the table of statistics of the senior class at Cornell, published in the Sun and Era, the students of the other sex wear no hats or shoes as no sizes are given...
...thanks of the college are due to those kindly and enterprising persons who are thoughtful enough to provide it with light and cheerful amusement every evening. When one has toiled over a hard examination in the morning, when one has spent the hot afternoon in a wearing grind, when the mind has been afflicted with these evils and the body with Memorial hash, when, despite all this, one settles down for some more hard and wearing work in the evening, then those well-meaning individuals who get up a lively nocturnal entertainment certainly deserve the heartfelt praise and gratitude...
...same classes," etc. I must confess that my first experience was rather a novel one, and I relate it, not for the benefit of the "student" (?) who declared that he found a young woman, within kissing distance, a "distraction," but to show how soon the novelty of such "distractions" wear off to one who earnestly devotes himself to his work. Being arranged in one class alphabetically, chance brought next to me a young lady, who, at the second or third recitation, very kindly offered me the use of her notes, as I had come in a few minutes late...
...sorry to see that a number of tennis players violate the rules of the association by playing without tennis shoes. It is indispensable for the improvement of our courts that all who play should wear tennis shoes, and we hope that no one from thoughtlessness will disregard the request of the association on this point. It is an injustice to the other members of the association for some members to totally refuse to be guided by rules intended for the common good. It is necessary for the association to become a success that it should meet with the hearty...