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Next, a gentleman with a mild and inquiring cast of countenance, and an evident thirst for information attracted our attention. He was examining part of the apparatus and we were told was a junior of that kind commonly known in college parlance as a "dig," by which is meant one who never cuts chapel, lectures, or recitations, who has never received a summons, and to whom there is no unholy pleasure in "painting the town red," or "paralyzing the faculty." We were told to regard him carefully for the species is nearly extinct, and will soon...
...upon to furnish the students with a patent Coggswell fountain, they assuredly ought to see that the pumps which grace our yard should be made to forsake their idleness, and become as useful as they have hitherto been ornamental. The student is at present scrupulously restrained from quenching his thirst, except at meal time, by any other means than by resorting to the opponents of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society. It is in the behalf of this society as well as in behalf of the thirsty freshman that we now lift up our voices for reform. The water which...
...name into print is certainly a praiseworthy desire, but we cannot undertake to fulfill all praiseworthy desires, -this one in particular. We would call the attention of the "Four" to the fact that they will undoubtedly receive a warm welcome at the office, where their thirst for knowledge can easily be gratified...
...rejoice that the Hollis pump has again been restored to its old position of dignified usefulness. Alone it stands, its old companion in arms, the Massachusetts pump, being still to infirm to assist in the good work of quenching the thirst of the parched students. It is strongly suspected that the revival of one of these landmarks, or rather yard-marks, has been brought about by the Total Abstinence League in the hopes of turning aside the stream of humanity which frequents at this time of the year the neighboring beer saloons. Whether this suspicion be true or false...
...that the library affords the opportunity. The student should reinforce his prescribed work with judicious and extensive reading. He should read around all the subjects that come before him in the regular course of his study, so far as possible, and he will experience gratifying surprise, if his thirst for knowledge is genuine, in finding how much more communion with many minds regarding a single manifestation of truth will do for him, than an unqualified reliance upon the unsupported opinion of one. A man who follows this method will find his collegiate course a much more profitable one, than...