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Yesterday the whole freshman class was detained at the lecture on "Latin Literature" ten minutes after the hour. "Imposition" seems to be as good an epithet to apply to such an act on the part of the instructor as any other we can think...
...epithet "scurrilous," applied to the Yale News by one of its older contemporaries of the same place, seems, from the language of that paper with regard to our recent Freshman match with Yale, to be but little too strong. We are told "that there is no doubt that the bull-dozing policy pursued during the game affected the result," which is contradicted in the same sentence by the assertion that "no one. . . . can attribute the disastrous result to these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner...
...disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism." Nothing was further from our purpose than to disprove the existence of that "fungoid growth"; on the contrary, we regret that there is so much of it here; but we ventured to suggest that the epithet is often applied too indiscriminately. The misinterpretation of our meaning is so obvious that we do not see how it could be made accidentally...
...HAVE often been struck with the number of epithets that are applied to our University. As each person's opinion differs, so does his epithet. A fond mother declares that Cambridge is a horrid place (whatever that may mean) for young men. A maiden aunt, who has heard of her nephew's troubles, that it is as much as a boy's life is worth to go to such a college, and that she would not send a son there if she had one. A father, that it has great advantages, but is frightfully expensive. Our young lady friend...
WHILE thanking you for your courtesy in publishing my letter of the 9th ult., I wish to correct the impression under which you labor, that I compared the modern hydraulic machines with the old fashioned weights, which never, to my knowledge, were dignified with the epithet "rowing." I cited rowing weights at random, as affording an example by which I could illustrate a principle, namely, the mutual effects of mind and muscle...