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After due consideration the "Articles of Agreement" were adopted by an almost unanimous vote, and the first jury was at once chosen. Each class is allowed to elect one member, and each chartered chapter of an inter-collegiate fraternity, if numbering at least ten persons; also the non-society men, if ten in number, elect a member. Society feeling at Bowdoin is so strong that it would probably be impossible for a system of self-government to succeed, unless it recognized the different fraternities, but under the present arrangement all prominent interests are represented on the jury...
...value of good notes has been ably discussed and long and thoroughly acknowledge. If, then, as we are aware, a majority of the subjects of study in college are taught by a system of instruction from which the students' abilities to profit rests almost wholly upon his success in getting good notes at lectures, is it not all important that no expedient be left untried which can possibly aid him in this very vital part of his work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with...
...situations are dramatic and intense in feeling, and the fantastic moods of the central character, Richard Beverly, are admirably worked out. But although, as a whole, we heartily commend the plot, there are a number of instances where, it seems to us, its development has been uneven and almost weak. The incidents are not always up to the pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several of the climances that occur in the course of the story, the feeling...
...Wendell's style strikes us as both forcible and graceful. The many descriptions, in particular, are remarkably well done. However, one may regard the weirdness of the story, and the fancifulness of the plot, everyone will agree that as a piece of literary workmanship the book is almost perfect. There are some vague and rather meaningless sentences scattered through it, but all in all, the manner in which the story is written is beyond criticism...
Memorial Hall has had its usual spring vacation quota of boarders, between two hundred and fifty and three hundred, considerably more than were there during the Christmas recess. The library has been almost deserted, the finals being far enough removed to cause little or no anxiety to the average student. Withal the vacation has been a very pleasant one, and the universal cry is, "Oh, for another week like this...