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...future historian, seeking information concerning the manners and customs of the Yale undergraduate in the year of grace 1876, will find the Courant of February 12 a mine of information on the subject. For some time past both the Record and the Courant have been greatly excited over a prospective event, which is called in New Haven the "Junior Promenade." This "Promenade" has finally taken place, and from the account which the Courant gives of it we are led to infer that polite society is not the sphere for which the Yale man was created. "We would (sic) like," says...
...more quotation, taken this time from the department headed "Yalensicula," will illustrate, if our other extracts nave failed to do so, the chaste diction of the Courant. Possibly apropos of the "Promenade," we are told that "she danced lovely - but she was engaged to the fellow who ate eight plates of ice-cream...
...tickets to Freshmen, but it declares that any man who goes to an entertainment for half-price is a "cheat"; and it is so violent in its indignation that it suggests the idea that the managers of the Junior Promenade and the editors of the Record are identical. The Courant of course takes the other side, and with rare moderation says that the remark of the Record are "in very poor taste...
...Courant thinks that the necessity of bowing to college friends ought to be abolished. It says that a man whom you meet twenty times a day for a whole year knows that you know him; and it considers the convulsive nod and the sickly smile with which Yale men greet each other unnecessary and annoying...