Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this connection we would say a word in regard to a communication which found place in our issue of yesterday. The article referred to seemed to intimate that the non-society element in the class would be overshadowed by the influence of the three great senior societies. The impression thus conveyed is, in a degree, erroneous. It cannot be denied that the members of a society will vote for a candidate who is a member of their own fraternity in preferance to another with whom they are less well acquainted. Yet to our knowledge there has been no society caucus...
...very distinctly some of the evils of what may be regarded as the new departure in our higher seats of learning. When indiscriminate choices are prompted, as in not a few cases they are, by the love of ease, or by some freak of fancy, it is easy to say what will be the effect on the intellectual life and growth of the student who makes such choices. But, where an institution is situated, as Brown University is, in the midst of a mechanical, manufacturing and commercial community, where there are scores of young men to whom a mere literary...
...either of two professions are about equal. One day they think they will choose one; the next day, perhaps, they are thinking very favorably of the other. To men in this troublesome and really dangerous state of mind, a few words of advice would be most acceptable. We say "dangerous state of mind" because the chances are even that after entering one profession the man will always feel that he should have entered the other. Therefore he has only a half interest in his work, and in a short time this half interest dwindles to no interest...
students works well there or would prove a success here, we do not attempt to say, but certainly all will admit that the more college men are treated as men the more satisfactory it is to them, and the more enjoyable is life to a faculty who can rejoice in agreeable relations with the students...
...write until an article is accepted. Communications on timely topics, articles on almost any subject connected with educational, college or athletic matters, are sure to find a place in our columns if they are well written and of sufficient interest to our readers. To eighty-nine we would say that it is customary for freshmen to begin early in the year to write, if they desire to be considered candidates for election after the midyear examinations, when a freshman editor is taken on the board. So now eighty-eight and eighty-nine let us hear from...