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...glad to learn that the Directors of the Reading-Room are taking steps which look toward a surer foundation for the success of one of the best institutions within our University. It is generally known that during the years previous to this a large debt for gas was contracted; and now that the directors see their way clearly towards a debtless year of our own, it is proposed to pay off this debt of other years that has long hampered the actions of the association. To this end subscriptions are being tendered by the able and the willing, and through...
...touching account of the guileless simplicity of the Freshman concludes with the eloquent lament, "How soon do they learn to look at it [total depravity] through a different medium...
...might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms of face and figure at Swampscott or Newport, looking wise if any allusion chance to be made to the creatures of the " deep blue sea" or to the idealist theory of Berkeley, showing themselves wise by saying nothing, - to see the man who, in college, will not take the trouble to look out of the window when the fair ones...
...worn away by the feet of those students who are already asserting the privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look well, especially when all that is required of them is to walk only in the paths and to be careful not to drop papers and other rubbish out-of-doors. The "landscape-gardener" has enough to do with his force without setting them to work at gathering up the rubbish...
...athletic sports are concerned; for the body, on whose development especial care has been bestowed for many months, is now often almost entirely neglected in the eager effort to review a year's work in a few days. It does not seem out of place, therefore, to look back on the history of those associations which have been founded among us with the design of promoting physical development, in order to see how many of their early promises they have redeemed...