Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...benefit of those who may wish to make use of our communication column, we wish to say again as in past years, that no communication will be considered in this office without the accompanying signature of the writer, although his name may be withheld from the public if desired. We would also ask future contributors to make a point of seeing the president or managing editor in regard to their effusions. Much misunderstanding may thus be avoided...
...very important purpose of the military drill seems not to have been given due consideration. In a few weeks over 3000 young men will leave Cambridge for various parts of the country. Before the next term opens, who can say what calls will come from the military authorities at Washington? No one can now tell when this war will end or what severe trouble may be in store for our nation. Every man in the University owes it as a duty to his country to make ready for some kind of service. He may be too young to enlist...
LAST Saturday Rattle attempted to take a straight header off the five-foot platform at the R. R. G. When he came up he looked for applause but he was greeted with jeers and a general cry of "I say did you hurt your stomach...
...last Princeton speaker was Matthew Lowrie. He was anxious to emphasize his previous assertion that the negative were debating facts, not theories. The whole argument of the affirmative on the Canadian question, he said, was based on the assertion that there is no systematic investigation. We say that there is such an investigation and that the law gives the power to strengthen it whenever it is deemed necessary...
...number centres in the fiction. Of the four stories the most entertaining from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced at all. She is certainly interesting when she does appear...