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...money which, in the aggregate, reaches a very considerable sum. Several of the societies have so large expenses that the proper management of their funds requires a considerable degree of financial experience. It has been the custom from time immemorial to appoint to the office of treasurer some student whose life has, until that moment, been divided between study and play, and whose time is generally pretty thoroughly occupied without his financial duties. The result of this arrangement is that, although no instance of dishonesty has ever come to our knowledge, the financial management of almost every society is constantly...
THOU Saxon-Greek, whose fancy-teeming soul...
THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...
...Master of the Rolls - for whose functions we refer the curious to the students of History VII. - has forbidden the proprietor of the Cambridge rink to let out for hire skates of any description. The undergraduates are consequently in despair...
...above all, should we hate the man who lies in his actions. Words can be contradicted and disproved, but the subtle influence of deeds is far less easily overcome. There is, I grieve to say, a class of students at Harvard whose every act is a lie; and, hard as the duty is, it is the duty of every pure-minded man to hate them, to shake the dust of their rooms from his feet, and to use all his power to crush them out of existence...