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Accustomed as we have grown by sad experience to the utter disregard of fair dealing usually shown by Yale freshman nines, we must confess that the assurance of the present demand is little less than appalling. In reply to the claim filed by the enterprising manager of the New Haven freshmen, we will simply quote the Boston Herald, which expresses our sentiments exactly. From its base-ball columns we clip the following...
...envied Coleridge, who at his will, could conjure up airy domes and pleasure houses for Kubla Khan and Abyssinian maids, to solace his night solitudes, while he, Lamb, could not muster a fiddle. And so he concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend C., who has wonderful visions in his sleep; and when in a tone of conscious superiority, he tells me of them, I become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed...
Still, I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the security of the present board of overseers, and still more shocked that, in a torchlight procession during the late unpleasantness, Harvard students bore a transparency inscribed, "Average age of Overseers, 95 in the Shade." Now, this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar...
...seriousness we confess that the pie is preferable to the stew, but the question arises in our minds if something else would not be equally preferable to the pie. It is true that the "something else" will cost more. Very well, let it cost more. The hall does not pretend to furnish board less than about $4.50 per week, (vide p. 133 of catalogue), yet for the last month the board was only $3.7 per week. The Board of Directors are certainly to be congratulated in their success in running the hall at such a small cost, but is there...
...terms cope with an examination designed to test their knowledge. Such men may, and may not, be right in their theory of examinations; but for ourselves we feel at liberty to differ with them inasmuch as we possess the required humility-and it does not take very much-to confess ourselves more ignorant than knowing; and, as long as we are so, we believe that we are better able to be, and more fairly would be, examined in our knowledge than in our ignorance. We, therefore, would have the purpose of examinations, for the present at least, to test...