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...American college since 1893; and a first prize of three hundred dollars, and a second prize of one hundred and fifty dollars for the best treatment of any one of the subjects by undergraduates of any American college. An undergraduate may, however, compete also for the prizes primarily meant for graduates...
...Kipling," is less satisfactory. He is guilty of saying that "in 'Gentleman Rankers' there is a more serious turn of finality" than in "the whimsically pathetic protest of 'Tommy'." If the Monthly had had a style book. Mr. Green would have been forced to tell us what he really meant. Now we shall never know...
...number also contains the usual By-the-Way some further account of Freshman innocence, an English conference with a personal flavor, and a patter of amusing short jokes. The drawings vary from extreme decision where they are decorative to extreme indecision where they are meant to be satirical. It is chiefly in this matter of caricature, and in the verse, that a certain weakness makes itself felt. Wit and humor have a narrow field in a College paper, but a very propitious one, since in College every one is or ought to be merry and everything has a right...
...error on which the three-year idea is based seems to be that the degree of Bachelor of Arts simply denotes that its holder has done the work of seventeen courses. If that were true, the three-year plan would have no opponents. What the degree has hitherto meant, however, is that its holder, if he is a "competent" man, has lived for four years an academic life, in which he has pursued liberal studies with some success, in which he has had an opportunity to partake in one or more of the College activities, and in which...
When, in the class meeting, a motion was made which was meant to begin the formation of a constitution for the Class of 1906, it was little thought that any one would seriously question the advisability of having such a constitution. This question has, however, been raised; and since, in nearly every instance, there has been manifested a misconception of the intention of the motion, it would seem well to explain what was really intended...