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...plain of Shinar, there has been an ever-increasing tendency among mortals to divergency in idiom and pronunciation of speech, even among those people whom we should expect to have the greatest points of similarity. One of the many curious features of college life is the bovine persistency with which some of our students stick to errors in pronunciation acquired in early youth: Among the poor and uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation is to be expected; but the fact that men of three or four years' standing in a respectable college, who, sublimely ignoring...
...moment. It would be considered as an insult to those present, and measures would speedily be taken to correct the manners of the offender. The same rule applies to visitors at Memorial Hall; and it is our opinion that if men, through ignorance of common rules of politeness, persist in standing in the gallery with their hats on, students are perfectly justified in endeavoring to teach them better manners...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...
...apathy which their discussion produces; and no greater mistake can be made by our Faculty, as we see it from the undergraduates' point of view, than to suppose that such a surplus of available enthusiasm exists here, that it can much longer be drawn on by those who persist in taking it out of circulation, without endangering the soundness of our whole philosophical treasury...
...perdition of the soul, often the irreparable ruin of the body. The graces of youth rarely survive this atmosphere of death. The evil is great, so great that few dare to look it in the face; and yet how many fathers, in full knowledge of the cause, persist in sending their children as inmates of a college, knowing all the time the terrible consequences of this deplorable education...