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...proximity to Boston he bewails as the "greatest disadvantage under which this seminary labors. The allurements of this metropolis," he continues, "have often become too powerfully seductive to be resisted by the gay, and sometimes even by the grave, youths who assemble here for an education..... The bustle and splendor of a large commercial town are necessarily hostile to study. Theatres, particularly, can scarcely fail of fascinating the mind at so early a period of life." Thus what to us seems one of our greatest advantages appears our greatest disadvantage when seen through the spectacles of a Yale President...
...then, of the Directors' investigation is, a general commendation of the management of the Dining-Hall, and the fair interpretation of the figures and facts collected by them can support no other result. As to that mythical "contract" which a writer in the Advocate paraded in all its broken splendor, where each table was represented as having signed away its birthright to beer and brandy for the services of an undivided waiter, and then to have been cruelly defrauded of several shares in that waiter by a merciless College, - we can only answer that that scheme (alias contract) existed only...
...pomp and splendor...
...Oberlin Review appears in a new dress, and celebrates its splendor in a long editorial. Unfortunately the local printers proved unequal to their task, and the pages of the Review appear in the following order: 4, 5, 2, 3, 12, 1, Its editors trust that the improvements made in the paper will induce their friends to renew their subscriptions immediately. We hope that this trust is not unfounded, but we venture to suggest one additional improvement. The name of the paper might be judiciously altered to the Ohio Labyrinth...
...have heard rumors that, Plutone volente, the authorities intend erecting a new and gorgeous gymnasium, converting the present fungus-like structure into a swimming-bath. This reminds one of The Last Days of Pompeii, and excites in the mind a dazzling vision of sybaritic splendor. But we fear that a tincture of Freshmen in Fresh Pond H2 + (?) would cause the bath to be too much after the style of the Leukerbad, on the Gemmi, to be popular with many of the students...