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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only one illustration of the marvellous virtues of casuistry as it may be learned from M. Pascal's book. Other applications may be made to almost all cases where it is desirable. For example, lying to all members of the Faculty is justifiable; and consider for a moment, O reader...
...sections are so peculiar that it is well to quote them in full, and the speculative reader may try to imagine the effect which their enforcement would have in the present time. "6, All students shall be slow to speake and eschew and in as much as in them lies, shall take care, that others may avoid all sweareing, lieing, curseing, needless asseverations, foolish talkeing, scurrility, babbling, filthy speakeing, chideing, strife, raileing, reproacheing, abusive jesting, uncomely noise, uncertaine rumors, divulging secrets, and all manner of trouble some and offensive gestures, as being the [torn] should shine before others in exemplary...
...jurare in verba magistri, which is quite superfluous, as no one would ever accuse it of such an improper thing; and in the April number is an article by Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight on "Intercollegiate Regattas, Hurdle-Races, and Prize Contests," to which I wish to call the unregenerate reader's attention. Knowing that it is too much to expect the above desperate character to read anything so respectable as the original, I venture to give a few selected bits, very much as the members of the B. L. B. U. E. T. A. used to print the decalogue...
Enough has now been quoted to show the reader the general drift of the article. The writer goes on to give heart-rending accounts of the experiences of Messrs. Taylor of Harvard, Driscoll of Williams, Francis of Columbia, and several other unfortunates. He concludes with a peroration replete with high moral sentiments, and attaches to the argument a kind of "preventer backstay" in the following quotation from Scripture: "The Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, and taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority...
...Patient reader, I look forward with you to the time when the virtues of the goody may be extolled by the collegiate muse, and when we shall recognize in the neatness and order of our rooms the beneficent hand of an "efficient" goody...