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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...romance called "Glamour," by the queerly named Meta Orred (Lippincott), has become a prevailing dinner-table topic. Since Poe and Monk Lewis, no writer has had a more powerful command of the gruesome in fiction. The author's real name has not been revealed...
That such would be the outcome of the proposed extension is the opinion not only of the writer, but of many Seniors, and, it would seem, of most graduates. Out of nine alumni recently consulted on this question,- of the classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would...
...objection that the occasion offers an acceptable opportunity for the settlement of past grievances is a matter difficult to determine, but doubtless the committee has obtained testimony on this point, as positive as that which props their first indictment. Certainly the present writer in his generation did not go hence unscathed, but he is equally certain that the trifling irregularity in which his collar button suffered fracture was untainted by any ignoble motives of revenge. However, this whole question is one to be determined by the individual members of the class. They might draw up a solemn covenant...
...writer of the communication, published in another column, gives expression to a complaint which recurs every year whenever a series of popular lectures is thrown open to the general public without any reservation of seats for students...
Permit me to reply to some of the opinions of the writer of the second latter in today's CRIMSON. This writer says: "I can see no reason why another tree should not be chosen, if the crowd which attends the exercises is to be as large as in past years." To this I reply that there is one most excellent reason for not choosing another tree, a reason, namely, of sentiment, purely and nobly of sentiment...