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...develop them by exercise and judicious criticism. Difficult as it is to write an article for a college paper on a subject in which we are interested, we know how much more difficult it proves to write a theme or a forensic, of much less length and poorer quality, and we have no reason to think that the case would be different with regard to elocution, especially when we remember what a wretched farce recitation in that study used to be. A step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class...
...that he might be blessed with only one more interview with the honorable youth who had beguiled him into paying twenty dollars to furnish the students with tabular views, the edges of which were ragged with torn advertisements, he slowly plodded homeward his weary way, a sadder and a poorer man. This is really the case; the shopkeepers of the two cities have been persuaded by some one to believe that it is to their interest to have their advertisements distributed to the men at their rooms. The men who have carried out this novel scheme...
...Memorial Hall is proposed. It is not proposed, however, as has been generally believed, to make Commons compulsory. "Several important gains would result from the changes suggested. In the first place, many students would board at the Hall who were not compelled to do so by poverty. The poorer students would of course resort thither, but many who were not absolutely poor would prefer to board there. Among students it is not well to have poverty the ground of association. Secondly, for hasty meals in a hot, crowded, vulgar room, under circumstances which make polite observances difficult and social enjoyment...
...noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life. He is one of those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should we meet him tomorrow, we should set him down as a prig, and perhaps be right in doing so. But if he is a prig at all, his priggishness is only a blemish, and not the mainspring of his character...
...nobody knows facts enough to give a valuable opinion. It is the facts which General Oliver's bureau is trying to obtain, and if we may trust what he has already collected, a thorough reformation is needed in the condition of the laboring classes. The oppression of the poorer class by Capital is none the less real because of such a nature that it is more felt than seen. To those who wish to investigate these subjects we commend the above-mentioned report as replete with useful information...