Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...candidate, and did not realize the bad taste, to say the least, of his action. It was an accusation insulting to the whole class; and it was, we believe, without precedent. It is gratifying to know that he who made the accusation was not borne out in it by even his most ardent supporters, - a fact which was clearly evinced by the unanimous election of Mr. Upham by acclamation. It can readily be seen that an occurrence like this tends to excite a feeling in a class that the four years' course might not serve to eradicate...
...were to be only a few friends, and I naturally hoped that they would be mutual friends; but no, as my hostess turned around and said, "I suppose you know most of them here," I was obliged to confess that I did not know a face. They were not even the kind of people one sees at parties. Every girl looked as if she studied too hard, and had come there as a part of her other work...
TALKING of cap and gown, we can vouch for the incorrectness of part, at least, of the following statement from the Berkeleyan : "Harvard, Princeton, Williams, Rutgers, Columbia, Trinity, Alleghany, Michigan, and the Junior class at Yale have adopted the cap and gown." Not even "are going to adopt"! Moderation in all things, dear Berkeleyan, even in such wild flights of imagination as the above, is highly desirable...
THERE is a popular fallacy that it is impossible to criticise a neighbor's work without asserting one's own superiority over him. We hold that a man can see clearly the mote in his brother's eye, even while he has the beam in his own eye; therefore we feel at liberty to cry out loudly against the utter weariness, staleness, flatness, and unprofitableness of the poetry in college papers. Such poems as the "Thunder Tempest" and "Music" in the Bates Student are fair samples of our average mediocrity, and the result is to make a piece such...
...benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch...