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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be devoted entirely to social enjoyment. Nor is the change to be regretted, since under the new system both host and guest would take an active part in the festivities; and, what is of more consequence, class elections, that source of endless troubles experienced in this and almost every other college, would be done away with. If, then, we can preserve the main features of Class Day, and purchase freedom from class election strifes at the expense of trite literary and class-tree exercises, the bargain ought never to be regretted...
...principal prize in our annual races. For several years, however, it has not been put up at all; and it bears no record of the few crews who have won it. We have, then, for our races, two valuable cups which have been for some time occupying an almost unknown grave in the safe at the Bursar's office. They have been recently brought to light, and are now to be completely disinterred and again devoted to their proper use as prizes in the Spring Races. The Graduates' Cup, which is much the larger, and is altogether quite an elegant...
...will be received with satisfaction by those students - and there are many of them - who feel that as far as they themselves are concerned the time heretofore devoted to these subjects has been too short. Opportunity is now offered to gain that practice in writing which is essential to almost every man who would communicate to others his ideas and the results of his study. The aim of the course is to afford individual help and encouragement, and the books used and the subjects given out will be selected with this object in view. Judging from the subjects which...
...abolish boyish customs. The performances, which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing up a drain, or mutilating and stealing College property, show first an absence of appreciation of what constitutes gentlemanly conduct, and second, a disposition to return to the boyish and rowdy habits which have been almost wholly uprooted from our soil...
...worthy of hearing than a disjointed howl of "Where art thou now, my beloved?" by the unmusical soul who comes up stairs taking three steps to each word. And there is so great a fondness for attempting this latter kind of music manifest at all times, that it seems almost unaccountable that the modest Italian should not be permitted to rest beneath our windows and tutor the untuneful ear into a correct knowledge of its favorite airs...