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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There is probably not a single student who, if he desired to see a game, would be unwilling to pay fifty cents on the spot. Receiving immediate returns for his expenditure, he would appreciate its full value. And if the Base-Ball Nine and the Athletic Association were allowed, when anything of interest was going on, to charge a fee for the use of seats, and if the seats were allowed to remain on the field during term time, - being taken down at the end of the college year, - our sporting interests would be far more prosperous, and subscription lists...
...initiation, so that in this way a large number of men gain that first practice in writing which is necessary to wear away the newness of their pens and make them run freely. Then the themes and forensics are sufficiently numerous, in the last three years, to allow the student on the average only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully examined by able Professors, who give their opinions upon the merits or demerits of each essay...
...Amherst Student says that the finances of the various college organizations there are in a deplorable condition. Large sums of money appear to have been subscribed, but when the time for payment came, the subscribers were unable to keep their promises. The Student very sensibly requests that no one subscribe more than he is able to pay, and that payment be made as soon as possible...
Letter-Writing III. would probably be a much more difficult course than either of the others, and would require a thorough knowledge of rhetoric, and of Bain's mental science. The text-book should be Smith's "Epistolary Communication between a Gentleman and his Trades-people." A student having taken this course would be prepared to write such a charming note to any one of his creditors, that he (the creditor) would not only cease asking him for the money, but would offer to pay up the sum in question on the receipt of another letter of a like nature...
Letter-Writing IV. should only be open to those students who had attained 70 per cent in Freshman prescribed small-talk. The textbooks in this course should be Jules Michelet's "L' Amour," and Robinson's "Multum in Parvo; or, The Art of saying a great Deal when you have Nothing to talk about." It is thought that these four electives would cover all the branches of letter-writing, and would be of more practical advantage to the student than any course now given in college. Persons not connected with the College in any way are apt to think that...