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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...special interest in study; these being determined by their rank either in all studies or in some department. This scheme, while free from such objections as Dr. McCosh's, would also offer a powerful inducement to men in the early part of their course to work hard. To us, however, it appears to have several faults...
...originated this mighty project we cannot imagine. It is worthy of a Gilmore; but between college journals there is so much more discord than harmony, that he would never have dared to make the attempt. However, the reasons given are too conclusive and overwhelming for us to raise our feeble voice against the scheme, even were we so inclined. What can be more pleasant than to shake hands with the Williams Vidette and Amherst Student, to make the acquaintance of the fair editresses from Vassar and all the mixed colleges, to see the Hobart Sentinel and Cornell Era hobnobbing together...
...come to us, you dear...
...quote it for the edification of our own readers. Knowing that this College is a "mixed" college, we are not surprised to learn that such a subject as "Wife, Man's Best Treasure," is a favorite one for essays; nor does the following decision of the editors puzzle us, "that it is no breach of etiquette for a lady to greet her gentlemen classmates on the street with a bow of recognition, although she may not have had a formal introduction...
...dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary" disposition and bent have been to all outward appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which, passed as they were under the old regime, we delight in recalling...