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...subject of ventilation is so trite that we hesitate to allude to it, and only do so in the hope that we may work a change in the matter. There is much complaint concerning the poor ventilation of the lecture room in Boylston, especially during the lectures in Freshman Chemistry. For an hour, more than two hundred men are compelled to sit in a small lecture room, with no supply of fresh air other than that from the furnace in cold weather, and perhaps a small opening in the window during warm weather. The confined air is still further vitiated...
...some risk of enlarging on a subject which may, by the time this paper appears, have become rather a trite one, we propose to say something of the Junior Class. When the year began it was the fashion to condemn '82 in almost every way and in almost every department. '82 had no scholarship, no athletic men, no pride in class, or individual reputation. The only praise that was given was that in theatricals, singing, and general good fellowship it was above the average. This feeling in the University was perceived by '82, and its injustice was resented. A determination...
SOME SWELL STUDENTS AT THEIR TRITE TRICKS...
...wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author or utterer, rather than to teach the reader or hearer. Trite sayings, which might be found endurable when succinctly stated, are spun out into a labyrinth of empty phrases, and shallow ideas are harped upon through infinite paragraphs, to give them an importance which they do not deserve...
...indeed, appear like the harbingers of the much-desired reform, but their appearance has been followed by a calm of such protracted suspense that it has become impossible for us to carry out our cherished plan of an eloquent editorial. That the so-called marking system has become a trite butt of undergraduate indignation we are well aware; but when we turn from the instructors who keep us in what seems to be unnecessary suspense, and contemplate those whose marking system is a mystery to all but themselves, we are tempted to remonstrate once again. And when, in addition...