Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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WITHOUT intending to dispel any fair dream of present happiness that may dwell in the mind of any youthful student during the first few months of his college life, we may recall our experience and by comparison hope to arrive at some agreeable conclusions...
...support are so very poor. Mlle. Ilma di Murska has certainly a brilliant voice and marvellous execution, but is not a singer who appeals to the feelings, nor does one care to hear her many times. Tamberlik may have been a fine singer twenty-five years ago, but at present he is not much superior to Mario, the prince of broken-down tenors. In fact, the combination of Mme. Rudersdorff and Tamberlik, occasioned by the illness of Mme. Lucca, is something unprecedented, and forcibly suggests the idea of the "music of bygone days." It is most unfortunate that the only...
...system of society elections and class politics meets with vehement abuse. Writing on such matters is absurd. We know, all of us, that our "systems," like all others, have their faults; we know, too, that to attempt to revolutionize them would be ridiculous. As matters stand at present, classes get on smoothly enough; then why try, by circulating discontented and inflammatory ideas, to create dissension and ill-feeling among the different sets in a class? We are very much obliged to all who favor us with contributions, and hope that the writers to whom we have alluded will not fail...
...impartially considered. Let not the decision be left until the spring freshets, and then given to a committee who are more pleased with a course if they are driven round town in carriages and lunched than by the merits of the course itself. Let us take advantage of the present interest, and remove all obstructions to a sport which is to strengthen the American character as well as American muscle...
...impossible to conceive how, in the present nature of things, making a noise can be avoided. All students do not possess Carker-like proclivities, and we may expect that noises will continue to be made. The faith of those who believe snowballs will not be thrown in the Yard this winter will be much weakened at the first snowstorm...