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Nobody will deny the good intentions of the ladies of Cambridge in their endeavors to help the undergraduates, but the result of their efforts has been detrimental to the University. No college man wants to be "Mothered", still less does he hanker after fudge and a place where his buttons may be sewn on. Civilian life with all its freedom is quite a different thing from the restrictions of military or naval life. The well-intentioned ladies have misinterpreted the needs and requirements of the students...
...each is peerless in its way; and there are few other minds of the present age that will probably ever handle these subjects as these authors have done. While Mr. Porter's work addresses itself more especially to the old in wit; to the double-dyed jokers who "hanker arter" metaphysical puns, as it were, Mr. Carey's, on the other hand, contains a certain element of burlesque, which even undergraduate intellects can easily grasp and appreciate. The prose world of the latter is certainly much nearer our own, though where the refreshing greenness of both their worlds...