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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...colleges as large as some of our Western institutions in Turkey and the Sandwich Islands, and where there is a college there must be a paper. We suggest Calcutta, or, if the weather is too warm, St. Petersburg, and only await our editorial free pass to go there next summer...
...professors in Michigan University lately resigned, and the Chronicle ascribed this to the "meddlesome disposition" of a Professor of History. In the next issue there is printed a communication from a graduate, signifying his hearty assent to the manner in which this paper treats him of the "meddlesome disposition," and urging that not a moment's peace be allowed that model professor until he resigns. Truly they have model graduates and model editors, as well as model professors...
EACH decade of college life brings forth new words, the derivation, meaning, and correct application of which are often distorted; one year they may express one thing, and the next fall into disuse. The word which forms the caption of this article, since it is turned from its usual signification, is illustrative of what we mean. The work entitled "College Words and Customs" contains no definition of it; we infer, from the fact that this book was published some score of years ago, that the word is of comparatively recent origin. It is, however, only a name for certain customs...
...Jack, is that you?" I answered in no very pleasant tone that as near as I could recollect it was. He asked, "Which side of the bed do you prefer?" I told him the outside, and slept on my lounge. My dreams were none of the pleasantest. The next morning I inquired of him whether he was well read up on bores. He answered that he was, and said "They were very dangerous animals when forced to fight." I at once voted him a fool, and determined to get rid of him. In the course of the day I told...
...creed have been cast aside, but for half a century the truth of this has been undisputed. At the present time, however, this subject is rendered not altogether inappropriate by various considerations, chief of which is the fact that the Sophomores are to discuss it in their next theme...