Word: callings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary" disposition and bent have been to all outward appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which, passed as they were under the old regime, we delight in recalling...
...third reform we call to mind is not so much a reform as an abolishment; but all appreciate it, and only wonder that a similar step was not taken half a century or so ago. We allude, of course, to the annulment of the law prohibiting smoking in the yard...
...here needed if at all, is inactive. A plan is rumored of, to give those men whose perpetual standing is eighty per cent, or thereabouts, the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. We speak with the highest possible respect for the men who head our rank-lists, when we call this a throwing of pearls before swine. We regard such a course, as the elder Mr. Weller did the sending of flannel "veskits" to the young niggers who would have no possible use for them. But this extravagant waste of unappreciated cuts will be the only step taken...
...when the college authorities will forbid these brutal displays, and that the art of rowing may be sufficiently well cultivated in each college by itself. It is thought, too, that "it the regatta crews could be drawn by lot from the undergraduates, so that the chance of selection would call out a general physical education, the whole aspect of the case would be very different." There is no doubt about the altered aspect. The opinion of Professor Hadley of Yale is quoted to the effect that the Yale oarsmen have been so often beaten because they have been good scholars...
...they search the intricacies of works, to themselves familiar, is hardly appreciable, and certainly not enjoyable, to the student who for the first time opens these pages. They do not remember the good old-fashioned education which gave them their fondness for the life they now pursue, but only call to mind their new theories, and apply them practically to the rising generations of students...