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...life of students of the middle ages is revealed by student handbooks. Such books, Professor Haskins continued, contain much useless information. Consider the following "Don'ts": "Wash your hands in morning: if time, your face. Don't pick teeth with knife. Don't stare at your neighbor at table. Scrape bones with your knife, don't gnaw them: when done with bones, put them in bowl or on floor...
From internal evidence, one might judge that the new board of editors of the Advocate had as yet had indifferent success in drawing contributions from candidates, had found comparatively little to say themselves, and had been forced to scrape the bottom of the drawer in the hope of finding something left behind by the Senior editors. Of the articles signed by names that have not appeared on the board, the best is the thoughtful "Prepared--for What?" Of Mr. E. A. LeRoy, Jr. If he is somewhat given to accepting as fact all that he reads in the newspapers...
...rest draw from a few hundred down to a handful. At present the relative importance of a sport should not be judged by the attendance. Most men buy only one ticket, usually for football, and the minor teams have very few men at their games. They may scrape along by the help of subscriptions, but larger attendance at their games would be much more valuable to the sport. With increased attendance there is bound to be increased interest in the minor sports, more men will come out for them, and there will be a large number of actual participants...
...participation in the recent Washington's Birthday scrape at Wesleyan, six students were suspended for the rest of the year, and eleven until May 1st. No action was taken in Hubbard's case...
...once? If these would-be tough freshmen were mature enough to realize how silly such performances are, it is safe to say they would not disgrace their class and themselves again. It is unfortunate that when newspapers like the Record are ever on the watch for some foolish scrape to magnify, these childish freshmen should be so willing to furnish opportunities. Nipety-two has made an honorable name through the efforts of the manly young fellows who fought so well Saturday. Alas, that the newly-earned honor should be tarnished by less worthy sons...