Word: callings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman was seen by a sophomore purchasing what base-ball men call "a willow." Being asked what he wanted of it, he replied that he intended to sit on it every morning, and apply for an excuse from chapel on the ground that he was waiting on a club. Judge of his consternation when he was gravely informed that the faculty never excused a man for merely having been on a bat. - Yale Record...
...their courses at college are not thorough successes. Every man should seek both to bring profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element of selfishness, and recognize and advance the element of generosity, of intellectual democracy, and the men who faithfully support them are helping themselves, and are helping also to improve and elevate the intellectual life...
...wish to call the attention of all who have not yet signed to the library petition at Bartlett's. In justice to all who are unable to make use of the library during the afternoon, we hope that the petition will receive the signatures of every man in college. There is no need to review the abuses of the present system of the library, and no words of commendation can add force to the petition. But we trust that no efforts will be spared to make the list of names as long as possible...
Professor Palmer's "New Education" should call forth comments from representatives of the old school. We understand that it will receive comment in the columns of the coming Andover Review. We wait with interest the sentiments of the Princetonian, our old-time disputant on this question...
...sorry to have to call attention once more to the conduct of men who use the reading-room in the library as a place for discussion and conversation. There are two men in particular, - we could name them if we wished to, - who regularly disturb half the room every morning by their loud discussions on athletics and recitations. We have often remarked on the selfishness of such conduct which is all the more inexcusable as the reading-room is to many men the only place in college where they are able to secure anything like absolute quiet. To such...