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...college is intended as a place for study and work, and not for the gay life which we have of late been leading. That the promenade was the most successful and enjoyable that has ever been given here is readily pronounced by all who participated. The thirteen hundred people present were amply accommodated in the large armory, and in spite of the fact that there were fully two hundred and fifty couples dancing at once, the floor was in no wise crowded. The decorations were more elaborate than those of last year, and conspicuous among them were the floral emblems...
Manchester, the present captain of Wesleyan's foot-ball eleven, intends to become a missionary...
...interest which is taken in the classes in elocution is a good sign of the importance which men are assigning to correctness in speech and nicety in enunciation. Under the tuition of the present instructor, time and attention is devoted to the requirements of every day conversation, and not to those accomplishments which are justly termed theatrical and which are of value only to those who are to make the stage or public speaking their vocation. The competition for the prize speaking gives every indication of being better than it was last May. We hope that the present prospect will...
...very long and partly philosophical. Its essence is as follows: "A newspaper approaches the ideal, then, in proportion as it lets its community see, honestly and accurately, just what the real life of the moment is; that is, in proportion as it makes its readers actually conscious of the present world of passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy, in which, as in an ocean, they pass their lives. The ideal newspaper, then, tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth...
...regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, countersigned by the secretary, may be left at Grays 18. In no case must themes be put in the box in Sever 3 after the day on which they...