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...entered and went up stairs, where a person met us and requested us to walk in, which we did. We found there eight or ten young fellows sitting around, smoking tobacco, with the smoke of which the room was so full that you could hardly see; and the whole house smelt so strong of it, that when I was going up stairs I said, 'This is certainly a tavern.' We excused ourselves that we could speak English only a little, but understood Dutch or French, which they did not. However, we spake as well as we could. We inquired...
...however, the college is to be a place of study for those who desire to study, more freedom must be allowed. A thorough education is only to be obtained by co-operation; instructor and student must work together. An education that is to permeate the whole mind cannot be rubbed in, but must be drawn in by the students from outside and at the same time drawn out from himself. The mind, like a meerschaum, is best colored from within. Only by a supply of good material from outside, and a gentle heat of zeal inside, is set free...
...first winter meeting of the Athletic Association took place in the Gymnasium on the morning of Saturday last. An encouraging number of entries was made, and the meeting was very successful; the only drawback being that on account of the number of contests, there was not time for the whole programme to be carried...
Taken as a whole the meeting was very successful, but as the time on Saturday morning is so limited, it is advisable that the delays which were frequent on this occasion should be avoided in future. The meetings in the Gymnasium will be very useful in affording students an opportunity to show the results of their winter training, and to encourage sparring, wrestling, and other sports which cannot take place at the spring or fall meetings. The interest which the audience took in the proceedings last Saturday show that these meetings of the association are an assured success...
...officers to report to us the difficulties that they have to encounter, or to show how impossible it is to satisfy every want. Unless the opinion of the majority is allowed to be clearly expressed, each man thinks that he is sustained in his possibly absurd complaint by the whole Association, and will never be satisfied till his complaint is attended...