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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...abilities, with few exceptions, are of the older professors. Now, good men would come here if the work were in proportion to the pay, even if the wages were small, because then they would have time and opportunity, though probably not encouragement (if some floating stories we have recently heard be true) to pursue their studies or scientific researches, and thus extend their fame and better their positions. But it is not to be supposed that a man worth anything will come here at any price, to be tied down year after year to such machine-work as the shovelling...
SHIPKINS, '83, is in love. He has repeatedly assured his friends of the fact, and, when he heard of the Spring Athletics, he felt that the chance had come to display his nine-month College culture to his charmer. Accordingly, after carefully studying a Sophomore's notes on Rhetoric lectures, he sent her a nicely written postal inviting her and another young lady (whom he generously purposed to bestow on his chum) to come to Cambridge and witness the sports...
Under the midnight, till the alarm was heard...
...dried-up voice, evidently that of some old fogy, is heard: "A wonderful work is the 'Immensity of Profundity;' replete with the most circumspect observations. It proves beyond a question the consanguinity of irresponsible abstractness of expression with incidental divertissement (if I may be permitted to use that word) of cerebral evolution...
...seems necessary to call the attention of the members of the University to it again. The restrictions put upon the Glee Club are so severe that it has not been able to make a single dollar towards meeting its expenses, and this is their only chance. Those who have heard the Club sing need not be reminded of the excellence of the concert. The presence of the Pierian and Mr. Van Raalte will add still more to the enjoyment...