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...this morning: it is hereby annihilated. In announcing the CRIMSON scoreboard in the Living Room of the Union Saturday afternoon, not a word is printed to indicate that none but members of the Union will be admitted. There will probably be a hundred non-members apply for admission and plead that nothing has been said to warn them. Then, let this be a warning to them. Hereafter, only members of the Union will be admitted to its rooms, except when special notice to the contrary has been given. This is as it should be. The Union has long enough been...
...them. Any man who needs such admonitions is referred to bound volumes of the CRIMSON which may be seen upon application at the office. But we have one plea to make of instructors, a plea which we feel we may safely say comes from the majority of undergraduates: we plead for more final reviews. In many courses there is a certain lack of correlation of the lectures with one another and with the reading, which means a complete lack of unity in the course in the student's mind. The reviews do not make it possible for the loafers...
...lack of smoothness of oral expression, the student can plead inexperience as an excuse with better justice than his instructor, since the latter has more opportunities for class-room practice than the most talkative of his students. But on those few occasions when the student must make himself heard in the class-room, he can plead no excuse except inadequate lungs when he fails to make his utterance, if not vociferous, at least audible...
...humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment. The writer of the editorial has expressed a divine truth. Rejuvenation is exactly the variety of transformation which, we should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant spirits who have not yet fallen under the hypnotic influence of the established and irresistibly comic sources of our University humor, some joke, some drawing, that does not deal with the polar seclusion of Conant and Perkins, the chill heart...
...this hearing the lawyers who presented the petition for the charter, President Eliot, and other gentlemen who spoke in favor of it, made no effect on the bostile committee of the legislature. Then Mrs. Agassiz arose to plead her own cause. Her address was a notable example of the effectiveness of public speaking; at its close the committee...