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...from the generous-hearted Freshman. The cause, the Senior Picnic (be it this year down the harbor or up the river), is a most worthy one, and no member of the Freshman class should mount the steps behind Memorial Hall without being amply prepared to contribute to the bushel baskets which will be paraded below. Freshmen who are caught without ready change can easily obviate the difficulty by weighting the bill with a borrowed coin and casting it to the ground, where it will be readily received by the waiting bankers...
...this again an example of ignorance to be traced from unconcern over the success of that season? Here's a simpler explanation of those absences-the debilitation of re-echoing defeat, nothing but defeat! It is a natural time to hide one's light under a bushel. The cry of splendid showing gives no satisfaction. It is a poor thing, though a logical result of undergraduate reactionary sentiment, when they consider what the team has done in spite of the meddlesome interference of the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore I say instead of dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which...
...lunch, 80 gallons of soup are served, 1500 pounds of beef or lamb, or 1800 pounds of chicken; besides 10 bushels of potatoes, one bushel of rice and 300 pies, of 30 gallons of pudding...
...concerned. Freshman clubs, especially those of a social nature at all, are valuable in bringing some of the class into intimate relations and are a great pleasure to the members. But they are also very serviceable in bringing out lights that otherwise remain four years under a bushel. The 'varsity clubs should recognize this...
...place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons, lawyers - in the different departments which...