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...training and practice it would give to the men, and it would be a benefit to the University crew, which is of the greatest importance. We trust the matter will not be allowed to drop with this editorial, but will be taken up and considered by the proper authorities...
...dwell on the obvious need of these studies-the list of signatures will throw aside all doubt on that point; but we do hope something more salutary to the college at large will come from the petitions than their mere consignment to the waste-paper basket without a proper discussion. Any others who may wish to sign will find the books at Bartlett...
...Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers, he seems to have chosen very inferior men as the proper representatives of their classes. He certainly lost sight of the possibilities of that devotion to an ideal which must be present in all leaders of men. The story is useful, perhaps, because it shows us just what we should not do; that is, judged of any profession by its worst...
...sections is temperate, exact and adequate presentation, and these are things which it behooves every man to know. How often is the reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their attention drawn to their mistakes and they continue in blunders which a little study would prevent. This is what...
...reasonable. They include a reduction in the number of students admitted to the Hall, a modification of the extra-order list and of the regular bills of fare, and a better organization of the Board of Directors. We hope that the number of members will be reduced to its proper limit next October, as suggested in the report. It is simply absurd to expect satisfaction while the Hall is crowded far beyond its capacity. To secure a definite policy in the management of the Hall, some such reorganization as would be effected by the appointment of an executive committee seems...