Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Greek 2, next year. The course is a new and interesting one, and will be especially attractive to Juniors; but a large number of the class of '80, who were in the advanced section during their Freshman year, are cut off from taking this elective, for the simple reason that they have already read the play. The suggestion has been made, and it is not a bad one, that some other play of Aristophanes, which none of the present Sophomore class have ever read, be substituted for the "Birds." It has always seemed to us a cause of regret that...
...their expenses, - a thing it is well able to do. We suggest as good trial times: mile-run, 4 min. 55 sec.; mile-walk, 7 min. 48 sec.; half-mile, 2 min. 9 sec.; quarter-mile, 55 sec.; hurdles, 19 sec.; 100-yards, 10 3/4 sec. There is no reason why these times should not be made with three weeks' hard work, and we hope the Association will seriously consider the matter...
...What reason is there for making such a restriction upon a valuable elective? Seniors may be better fitted for it than Juniors; but, also, Graduates are better fitted than Seniors, and the elective might be placed among the Graduate courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...
...Record severely condemns the bad habit of marking library books. We would go a little farther, and condemn that of marking even one's own, for this reason: book-marking is like dram-drinking and only total abstinence can safely guard us against excess. Anybody who has seen a young lady's copy of Tennyson, and searched in vain for an unmarked page, will recognize the evils of indulgence. Of course when it comes to marking other people's books, the injury is moral as well as mental...
Henley Regatta. - The action of the Henley committee in compelling all American crews to enter six weeks before the regatta, and pay their entrance-fees then, is condemned on all sides. No reason can be assigned for such a step save that the English amateurs do not wish to row against oarsmen who are mechanics, and do not come under the head of "gentlemen" as they define the word. Either this or a wholesome fear of American oarsmen has influenced the regatta committee in taking this very unfair and unsportsmanlike stand...