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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I wish to call the attention of the proctors to a few practical matters connected with the examinations. Let each man of you make sure, the day before the examinations begin, that both his shoes are quite free from squeak. If there is the least suspicion that the soles are stiff-jointed, pray soak them every night in oil or water, so that your presence in the room next morning may be as unsubstantial as possible...
...might speak from experience, I should say that the luxuries of our crew were rather few and far between, and that if they could be provided with beds instead of cots, which would not squeak, and wake the whole crew up every time one of its members turned over, and which were long enough to hold a considerably larger fraction of each man, or if the crew could be provided with a few more kitchen chairs with four legs, instead of three, I imagine that they would think that they were really enjoying a few luxuries...
...college poets. His fertile fancy has produced some very pretty lines of which a good specimen is his rendering of Banville's "Ballade of the Haunted Stream," which is, however, too long to quote. "Carl" has also written some very clever verses, but we can almost hear the crank squeak in some of his effusions. However, a tolerant kindness should be shown towards an editor of a fortnightly paper. The Argo has very well formulated its creed in the following triolet, which is only one of thousands...
...shut up your infernal squeak...
...past any given man more than a half-hour by the clock. This is in the highest degree praiseworthy, and we heartily congratulate them in their not altogether unsuccessful efforts at reform. But there is room for improvement; the ideal is not yet attained. Boots that squeak are a nuisance; doubly so when a proctor wears them in examination; trebly so when the aforesaid proctor determines to take his "constitutional" in said boots in said examination-room. A piteous story might be told of a man who by accident has to sit within two feet of damp, cold walls (lower...