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This habit of defaming celebrated men, or institutions is but another example of our human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to the preparation for examination in French I. We have already had all the work we can do for the daily recitations. Now we are pleased to learn that in addition to grinding up all we have read in class, we are to have forty or fifty pages extra, which we have had no time to go over with the instructor. It is asking too much...
There is also the opinion, which many well-meaning people have, that this college is a kind of athletic training school, a grand place for one to learn how to row or play base-ball...
...educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn a sombre lesson from the clipping from the Boston Globe which we print on the first page...
...learn from the Amherst Student that the fellows at Amherst are grumbling considerably about the ill success of their nine last year. As yet the grumbling seems to have no practical effect. But the editors of the Student fear that if the present state of things continues, the nine will be poorly supported. Men will take no interest in the gymnasium or out-of-door practice of their team, nor will they give it a generous support. A nine with such half-hearted backing will be very likely to fail...