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...continue: "Such has been the treatment which we have received, undeservedly, we trust, from those of the sons of Alma Mater, who, standing in immediate proximity to us, should have been a force on the right hand and on the left of their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence, which has been often and liberally ascribed to college, is as little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue...
...persisting in its present course. It says: "If the time has not yet come for what the News terms 'swinging round,' the time has certainly come when the reasons that lead to our keeping on in the course should be made known. Other colleges, and Harvard in particular, assert their system to be the most advantageous." It seems to be only a question of time when Yale and every other ultra-conservative college will be forced to adopt the elective system. It is a manifest destiny...
...there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system, is a serious reflection upon the much vaunted executive of the college, and we do not hesitate to assert that the health of the students has in some cases suffered in consequence...
...room which a fire does. But the plan has its advantages: A room can be heated in a very short time, and the temperature regulated easily, though I have always noticed that the rooms heated in this way are very hot and close." Nevertheless, we will venture to assert that no one who had endured the rigors of minus zero degrees in e. g. Weld, would ever venture to raise such objections if steam were to be introduced into our buildings. On the question of the desirability of steam-heat for dwellings in the outer world, there is almost...
...HAPPINESS, THEN, ANYTHING MORE THAN WE ASSERT, - A NAME...