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...young nor old shall e'er prevail its honors to destroy...
...have been requested by the officers of the College Telegraph Company to correct an erroneous impression which seems to prevail among the lower classes respecting this company. As its roll of membership is at present entirely made up (with one exception) of Juniors, the report has been circulated and generally believed among the lower classes, that the company has become a class affair...
...statement might seem to contain fit replies in themselves. My purpose is only to confess myself a believer in sentiment, and to give a few reasons for clinging to something which has at least the approval of some former times, and which, I had thought, was beginning to prevail in our own. Indeed, it is for this reason that I have never before obtruded upon you my opinions in regard to this subject. But if a confession of sentiment is to be considered a confession of folly, why then it behooves every true lover of sentiment boldly to acknowledge himself...
...alluded to in the speeches of the evening, of the perfect friendship and good-will which have existed between the two papers during the past year, and to express the hope, the fulfilment of which we see no reason to doubt, that the same harmony and good feeling may prevail in the future...
...visitors are said to come to see two than to see one. Besides, - a most obvious advantage, - the expenses are lessened, so that a man of moderate means with a chum can take any room in the Yard he wishes. But, notwithstanding such arguments, a feeling is beginning to prevail, more widely now than for some years past, that it is desirable to room alone. Possibly the feeling has always existed, but is become noticeable now, as until lately it was almost impracticable to secure a single room. Within a year or two the rule has been made that...