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...expected to be convincing enough to any gentleman in the Faculty, and, indeed, to any man of a balanced and logical mind. If the Bursar has a right to say who shall black our boots, he has a right to say who shall put down our carpets, who mend our furniture, who cut our trousers, and who shave us. In spite of our logical, philosophical, and metaphysical training, I have not yet seen a man good enough at drawing distinctions to distinguish two different principles in these several cases. Thus, while every man in college denies the right...
...year examinations. This has always seemed to us a wrong policy. If a man has done well, a knowledge of this fact encourages him to work so as to do as well on the Annuals; if he has done poorly, he should be informed, so that he may mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm result. To particularize, some fear that the marks will not be announced in History 6. This is a course which has never been given before, which is on a rather indefinite subject, and which...
...mend the hole...
FIRST FRESH. (who has waited two weeks for the college carpenter to mend his windows). Why am I like Milo...