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...talk and act nonsensically. College men especially are wont to search out the humorous elements in a serious situation, and their enjoyment in raillery is noticeably persistent. Harsh critics condemn this apparent distaste for fundamentals, and disparage the merits of an unregulated disregard of inward responsibility. If this sort of liberty is good for Englishmen, it must contain some value...
Professor Ripley recently gave good advice when he urged men to attend the Sunday labor meetings in Faneuil Hall. College students are at the time of life when they need to become acquainted with every sort of problem in a broad, humanitarian way, without the prejudice of later years. Not only the problems of labor, but the financial, religious and diplomatic interest of the world need a first hand exploration which cannot be obtained inside the walls of a college...
...much of it on Sunday. Ford Hall meetings, Tremont Temple addresses, public library meetings, Lowell lectures and Faneuil Hall meetings, not to mention special lectures, crowd into view. The majority of students sleep half of Sunday and loaf the other half, or spend the entire day seeking a mild sort of amusement. How much better to utilize Sunday afternoons and evenings by attending a meeting of lecture of educational value...
...class is new to College life and customs. Its members are embarking on strange seas where a little counsel from men who know the ropes would be of inestimable value. Most of the mistakes a man makes in College are due to ignorance, and it was to eliminate this sort of mistakes that the advisory system was evolved. Provided the new men will meet them half way, the advisor can generally be trusted to do his part, and if both men really make an effort to come closer together the benefit is sure to be mutual...
...Whittlesey's interesting "Travler," a tramp, seems also to have been drawn from life. At any rate, we seem to recognize the sort of road-side philosophy that he discourses, even if it is hard to reconcile ideas and vocabulary...