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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rumor of Professor Adams's return may prove to be true. The electives in Oral Discussion and Modern German Literature have already been announced with more or less comment in the College papers. Some disappointment is felt because the former elective is open to Seniors only, and, in fact, we doubt if it would be overcrowded, or its usefulness lessened, if Juniors were allowed to take it, as they are allowed to take its companion course, English...
...Freshman class, we suppose, originally got its name from the fact that it is those amiable new-comers who refresh the weariness of college routine, and prevent our suffering from any possible monotony, by their eagerness and energy in striking out into new and original paths. The Class of '81 has just furnished us with a new proof of this freshness - we use the word in no invidious, but in a complimentary sense - by their organization of a "Glass Ball Club." We heartily welcome this new addition to college sports, and wish success to the ball-shooters...
...WOULD-BE orator of Yale reckoned without his host when he delivered an oration on "John Milton as a Republican" at the Junior exhibition. A writer in the last Record exposes the fact that the oration was judiciously selected from one delivered in 1869 on "John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and John Locke as Advocates of Liberty," which was found in a back number of the Yale...
...recently arrived, have but lately become acquainted with such a representative; and he has appeared to me to be an evil outgrowth of the marking system, - in fact, a strong argument in favor of abolishing that system...
...such glees as the writer mentions are too difficult for men with any knowledge of music and with fair voices, and much less can we believe that they are too difficult for our Glee Club. If "W" had lately heard the Glee Club sing, he would have recognized the fact that their music is hardly open to the charge of being too difficult; many of the College songs he would like sung are certainly much harder to master. There is no reason why we should not hear a few college songs from the Glee Club, but there is every reason...