Word: thinge
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...uncertain; but if it refers to increased efficiency in playing, we would remark that it was not the purpose of the new rules to increase the skill of the nine but to rid it of professional tendencies. Of course opinions will differ as to whether this is a good thing or not, but, as far as we are able to discover the sentiment of the college in the matter, it is on the affirmative side of the question...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme 5 is due March 20. Subjects : 1. Washington as a Military Commander. 2. The Style of the Letters of Junius. 3. Why are the Wages of Women lower than those of Men? 4. The New Tariff. 5. Is there such a thing as American Literature? 6. Journalism as a Profession. 7. Gentleman-farming. 8. A Metrical Translation of one hundred lines from any classic or foreign poet. 9. An Account of the Assassination of President Lincoln...
...freshman hesitates on the word "connoisseur." Professor: "What would you call a man that pretends to know every thing?" Freshman answers: "A professor." - [Chronicle...
...educational, social and moral standpoint." The "standpoint" of the Columbia senior seems to be the peaceful posing on the biggest pile of college endowment in America, blandly waving aside the opposite sex as educationally, socially and morally incompatible with his perfect and exclusive enjoyment of a particularly good thing.-[Woman's Journal...
Exeter is evidently willing to do all it can to send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love...