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...prize of pound 50 is offered for the best poem on Derry Cathedral. The composition may be in any recognized measure, and is not to exceed 120 lines. The author is requested to conceal his name; but each poem is to be distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope endorsed with the motto, containing the competitor's name. An entrance fee of ten shillings is to be forwarded with each poem. While it is desirable that reference should be made to religious and historical associations, the adjudication will be decided by poetical merit alone...
...Would it not save the majority of the lower layer of our future government officials from that "bumming" which must occur when one wastes from one to three years of his life? The academic freedom would not be affected in the leas; by this plan, only the right to conceal laziness from parents, guardians and the university officers would...
...care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which may justly place them above those of the old world. By their liberality to the people they gain a well deserved respect. The people see the light that the colleges do not conceal, as of old, but let shine where it will. In no better way, as the Varsity suggests, can these happy relations between colleges and people be sustained than by courses of lectures, open to all, given by prominent professors and specialists. "Cultured men," says our contemporary, "ought to consider...
...class are found among those who are seeking the minimum mark requisite for passing. They reason that they are gaining no false glory, and are depriving no one of deserved prizes, by a few tricks which are regarded as shrewd rather than dishonest. They take no pains to conceal their method of gaining forty or fifty per cent., and even boast among their companions, of the cunning way in which they hood-winked the proctor...
...Yale has lost the championship; there is little use of trying to conceal this fact. We make this apparently premature statement for the reason that we think it impossible for both Brown and Yale to beat Harvard; both of which things would have to happen even to tie Harvard for first place. We shall try to bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall...