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...common level. While we may not regret on the whole that class feeling is not to-day of the same strength and character which was common to classes of fifty years ago, still there are a few old customs like the junior dinner which we can well cling to. We hope the proper persons will take this matter in hand at once, and see that it is carried...
...practice be made general? Why should not the freshman when he enters college be more forcibly reminded of Harvard's honor-roll for the past two hundred years? Why should not the names of the Harvard men of years gone by who today challenge our enthusiastic respect and admiration cling to the old rooms they occupied in college, or peer at us familiarly from their chiseled resting-place on the corner of one of the college buildings...
...negro village in Ceylon. The growth and culture of tea is the principal occupation of the inhabitants of this island. Besides the cocoanut, cabbage and pinnate palms, the forests contain a curious growth called rain trees which drip with moisture. Vines called runners or climbers, covered with blossoms cling about the palms to a height of fifty feet. Next to the palm, the bamboo is the most interesting to the botanists. This species grows luxuriantly in Ceylon...
...taking only a part of it. This is exactly what the student does who surrounds himself with close air in a lecture room. And the effects moreover are carried beyond the lecture room. When the student comes to do his studying the results of the close air still cling to him, his brain does not work quickly, and he becomes drowsy. Everyone knows how much longer it takes to learn a lesson, if he is all the time on the verge of falling asleep, than if he could put all his energies into his work. Close air in a recitation...
Under "Topics of the Day," discussion is given to "Bloody Monday Rushes," - a subject to which old Mother Advocate seems to cling with an undiminished pertinacity, - and "The Conditions of College Success." The latter is full of common sense and the key-note of the whole is struck in the concluding lines of the discussion, "The truest success lies rather in making the most of one's advantages than in attaining a flattering prominence in scholarship, societies, or athletics...