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...this same "atmosphere" and suspicious that no combination of tutors, honors and liberty could produce the ideal commonly pictured, The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily newspaper named for its college), last week, published supplementary impressions of Oxford by one Franklin McDuffee, who had studied there. He wrote of Oxford's trivial, traditional regulations- gowns for classes, hours for going home at night, bans on public and private dances and on hotels and restaurants not licensed by the Vice-Chancellor, "gating"* and fining for offenses. He wrote of the pitfall of idling that gapes for "men who lack pronounced will power...
Both these phenomena--for such they truly are at Cambridge--seem almost too trivial to mention. But they are significant in that they indicate a willingness on the part of students at Harvard University to model their manners and customs after preparatory schools and small-town colleges. Harvard's much-touted "individuality" has left its mark on students for nearly three centuries. But if it is now to yield so readily to the onslaughts of provincial collegians, the Student Council might just as well declare it at an end, rechristen the Yard, the Campus, and make the Freshmen start wearing...
...Song", is the most ambitious story, and has considerable merit. The characters are not without an impression of life, and the ending is natural, although the device of destroying a keepsake, used by the author to conclude this episode in a girl's character, is itself somewhat frayed and trivial. "The Kandhi Light", told in dialect by Kendall B. Foss, characterizes an old sailor and relates one of his adventures with some savor of reality. In "Outcast", by Kimball Gray, is to be found perhaps the best touch in the prose of the present number. The author sees a girl...
...Freshman Class, in donating $244.24 to the begging Seniors last Tuesday, exceeded not only all former records for munificence but also all records for variety in their gifts. Last year the paltry sum of $159.13 was accompanied merely by life savers and other trivial articles. This year, however the Seniors in charge of the collection announce a range and imagination in the choice of donations which are unprecedented in the annals of Senior and Freshman pictures...
...naming of the erstwhile Holden Twins which has dragged over so many months has been accomplished at last not only with care but with inspiration. The name of a college building seems a trivial thing, but actually it is the cornerstone on which all its traditions must rest. Those who have never seen the structure will think of it always by its name, from which they will create their own impressions. Those who know it well will make the letters above the doorway stand for a multitude of feelings, call to mind a host of memories...