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...made at once for the dining saloon, where they ordered, devoured and digested (let us hope) an excellent dinner. The "foolish virgins" were obliged to form a line and wait at the head of the stairs for their turn. "After dinner, smoke a while" seemed to be the general maxim, and well it was carried out. Later in the evening, several members of the 'Varsity and '90 glee clubs gave a very choice selection of college songs, which were received with uproarious enthusiasm, and the cries of "more, more" made one feel as if he were in the college yard...
...maxim "forewarned, forearmed," must be taken with restrictions, yet I do think that much more important than physics or metaphysics is a knowledge of the laws of health...
...strange that the CRIMSON should consider it sustained. It is true that the statement in Tuesday's issue proves nothing, but it is no less true that Williams is not called upon to do more than deny the charges until something more than assertions are brought against her. The maxim that one is to be presumed innocent until proved guilty applies as well to colleges as to individuals. Mr. Allen's communication overthrows the most serious part of the second charge against Williams, - that of delaying until only three days before the date of the game before giving notice...
...Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries...
...Fullerton has given a good maxim for the novelist. There are, however, a few examples of the base made beautiful by art, that seem to combat with his conclusion. The question he has presented is a nice one, and his treatment of it is, one the whole, to be commended...