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CERTAINLY it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is...
THE New York Times has an exhaustive editorial, in a recent issue, on the subject of elective studies. The author shows a good deal of sense and acknowledge of his subject, but the article can hardly apply to us, as we have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller...
WE congratulate the Vassar Mis. upon reaching the expected end of "Man versus Hairpin," a story which bears resemblance to no other known literary work except "The House that Jack Built," with which it may reasonably claim kin. One easily gets the run of duplicate and duplicated, - "This is the...
The most offensive part of his article is his denunciation of what he calls "Harvard contempt," "Cambridge Miss-Nancyism." None of his examples prove anything to his purpose. Of the worthlessness of student opinion as to the character and abilities of a fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College...
The extreme sourness - not to say impertinence - with which this agrarian inveighs against Harvard contempt and Cambridge conservatism makes one almost irresistibly infer that he has been - to say nothing of his deserts - a sufferer from both the one and the other.