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...analogy may perhaps be fairly established between the exercises at the tree and the Mayday festivities and the Christmas games of Merry Old England. Now, with these latter observances is associated a certain simplicity and heartiness symbolical of national traits. Their decadence, therefore, has not failed to call forth the lamentation of all good men to deplore the death of the healthy vitality and social sympathy which these institutions at once expressed and encouraged. The case is very much the same with the exercises in question. Can any ceremony be more beautiful than a merry physical rivalry, such as that...
Whatever a Senior may think as to the little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...offices without any distinction to the whole class, - and we sincerely hope that the result will be seen in a wise choice of the best man for each place. Of course, this result will not be reached unless the old jealousies are entirely thrown away, and it is equally certain that the experiment of this year will not be repeated by succeeding classes unless the issue proves that better officers, and therefore a more successful Class Day, are possible under the new system than under the selfish wire-pulling which used to be thought necessary. We hope that...
...action of the Faculty in requiring, under certain circumstances, a fee from men who present themselves a third time for examination on any subject is a move in an entirely new direction. We take it that the idea was not so much to bring men to get off their conditions on the first trial as to give some recompense to the tutor, whose work is increased by their carelessness or stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give...
...have printed a letter this week, entitled "Some Grievances," because it expresses the views of a certain class of students, and our own views to a certain extent. Every grievance, however, our correspondent should remember, is not so great when looked at calmly as it may at first appear. Raising the advertised price of rooms without giving notice is undoubtedly a high-handed measure, and although the requirement referred to in regard to the keys involves a principle perhaps, our correspondent will find, we think, that it involves but little expense...