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...most important factor in the term is, of course, the end of Term Examinations, when the unfortunate youth who has spent his time in pleasures will come the inevitable cropper, while the studious scholar will reap his expected reward...
...manifest itself? Should he stifle the matter-of-fact, practical ambition to "make the team", or "win the competition"? Perhaps the "student" has been undeserving of his name in the past perhaps he has been too much of a "college boy". But are not some of his "non-studious" activities worth something...
While the University, except for the organizations taking spring trips and those Seniors inspired by studious necessity, has been hibernating, the rest of the world has continued to keep the more or less even tenor of its way. All, that is, but the supposably "economic" conference of the nations at Genoa, which, during the past week or ten days, has passed from the potentially sublime to the positively ridiculous. What "might have been" an extremely sane and important conclave is fast deteriorating into a free-for-all diplomatic contest with no holds barred...
...that even in these "years of ease" money is an important consideration for most of us. The College office, evidently of the same opinion, devotes a pamphlet to the subject of college aids and expenses, suggesting well-tried methods of earning money and, for the benefit of the more studious or the more brilliant, listing the numerous scholarships open to undergraduates...
...skillful handling of the pencil; in the opportunity that a drawing offers to even the most uninitiated observer to study the actual lines and processes of this creation. It is in this, and in the ability shown to present the true character of his sitters through close and studious observation of the physical forms and expressions that reveal the soul, that the popular appeal of Mr. Pollak-Ottendorff's works lies. His portraits, though it seem paradoxical, are large miniatures,--having all the grace, refinement, and texture of the miniature with the distinction and carrying power of the larger work...