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...discuss; we merely wish to suggest a means whereby extensive repairs could be made and to every student's advantage. We claim that it is the duty of the Corporation to provide better means of egress from our dormitories in case of fire. Were a first class fire to break out to-morrow with great loss of life and property, every one would be clamorous for better protection, or, to use a homely proverb, the barn would be locked after the home was stolen. There is nothing in the nature of things why we are not just as liable...
...last issue we had occasion to take the Courant to task for ungentlemanly writing, or, as they call it, wit; this week we have to call the same paper to account for publishing a statement wholly false, - a statement which no college paper should have published without first having verified it. As for our Nine, every one of them was in bed in good condition by ten o'clock on the evening in question...
...Archangel, from Portland, Oregon, is a publication of the most startling interest, and because we only notice two articles in its last issue, it must not be supposed that the others are unworthy our attention. The first is a violent attack on Darwinism, in which the train of argument is somewhat as follows: "Darwin denies the Biblical theory of the Creation, and tells us instead that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This...
...answer this question in the affirmative without the slightest hesitation. The first indications were by no means promising, however, and the youthful Keltic mind did not seem to grasp the true spirit of the reform. Many strange inconsistencies were noticed at first. For instance, a small boy who saluted an elderly gentleman with much politeness saw nothing inappropriate, when beyond the reach of the gentleman's cane, in addressing him in terms more familiar than complimentary; a youth whose manners were very winning, and who had even attained some degree of perfection in tying a cravat, was in the constant...
...entering college the Freshman was subjected to hazing of a kind which, although it is dying out here at Harvard, is still practised in many other colleges. At first badgered to try his mettle, the Freshman, if very fresh, was subjected to mere vulgar banter; but if he showed any quickness at repartee, he was tried by all the resources of student wit, and finally subjected to the pump...