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...confirmed habit of cutting uninteresting recitations on small provocation, and yet, probably, these swell the black list to a large extent. The apparent fallacy in the position is the exhorting of students to keep up an artificial state of attendance on recitations, while the experiment looks to ascertain the real disposition of students with regard to the matter. This, however, disappears when we remember that the test which the authorities are agreed to apply is an arbitrary and perhaps inadequate one, namely, the number of absences in the course of the year...
...Apollo at Delphi is one instance of the former class. The Prussian government has this year fitted out an expedition to restore this temple, and to remove all works of art that can be removed. While the necessary subscriptions are being obtained the club will study the subject, ascertain where explorations have been already made, and decide where they can best begin operations. It is scarcely necessary for us to say that we wish the enterprise every success...
...disappointed turnip! Is no one strong enough to carry it forevermore away? At Vassar College, I am assured, the sufferings of this poor vegetable would be short indeed. It is a custom there for the chief cook (or his deputy perchance) to examine the tables after every meal and ascertain what dishes are untouched or but sparingly eaten; these for a while are seen no more, and others more popular with the students take their places...
AFTER suffering in silence from the cold at prayers for two days, we instructed our reporters to ascertain exactly how cold it was; and accordingly, on Wednesday, two of them gave us the following results. One of them, in a comparatively secluded corner, found his thermometer had fallen to 42, and as yet showed no intention of remaining fixed; the other, in a more exposed situation, yet not more exposed than that occupied by most of the two upper classes, recorded a temperature of 36. Under such circumstances as these, we should like to ask those of our government...
...chum should have chosen to give a punch in No. 43 on the very night before our hardest Annual I never could tell. I suppose it was because of the peculiar inappropriateness of the time. But give a punch he did, and that, as near as I could afterwards ascertain, compounded of the most dissimilar and deadly ingredients. The horrors of that night I shall never know, for I passed the time in study with a friend in C. H. I returned to the room in the morning, however, in time to wake Sam for the examination...