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Many are saying that our professor of modern lan
guages teaches his classes too much as though the stu
dents were children. His desire to be thorough
should not induce him to go so slow that nothing is
.accomplished during the year. He should remem
ber that all students are born tired but they can work
when they have to, and that the way to get work
from them is to keep piling it up, till at last they get
scared and do it.
It is a matter of remark that students as a class are
characterized by weak eyes. This ought not to be so
any more with them than any class of night workers.
However there is some explanation for this defect in
the fact that as a rule the student is not sufficiently
careful in respect to any thing. If they would have
a good shade to their lamp and sit so as to prevent the
light from shining in their faces, and in most cases
Jkeep better hours, fewer students would be obliged to
leave school on account of ophtalmia.
One of our most erudite Sophomores has been
soaring in the realms of the unatainable. He pro
poses to "let" a man die in a hermetically sealed
room and when his soul comes out of the poor mortal
body it can not possibly get away out of the room.
This our philosopher believes to be axiomatic. Now
since the air has been weighed before the demise of
the "subject" when the soul "comes out" it will in
dubitably weigh somewhat nine. Thus the air can
be again weiglied and of course the exact value of a
soul can be readily determined. This beats Darwin.
The Student fears that the medical members of
the University family do not fully understand the at
titude of the other departments toward them. There
is not, and never has been a cause for enmity between
"lits" and "meds;" neither do the latter have valid
reasons for thinking that the academic students are
not satisfied with their presence. The work of the
two classes of students is so widely separated, how
ever, that the divison between the two schools must
be very apparent. A trifle too much sensitiveness on
the part of the new comers is doubtless the cause of
the slight feeling manifested thus far.
There was a general stampede of students toward
the trains Wednesday, all eager to praticipate in the
grand annual Thanksgiving turkey rush at their sev
eral homes or with friends. There is something ro
mantic in this custom instituted by our fathers and
seconded by our mothers, a kind of a passovcr in
which a large per cent of the turkey crop fall instead
of the eldest son of the Egyptians. The most strik
ing feature to us is the fact that no one is expected to
pay any attention to the laws of health but load the
table till it groans and eat. Laws of health are
good things in their places, but we fail to see wherein
they apply to a hungry student on Thanksgiving
day.
Many of the characteristics of the Puritans have
wisely been discarded by their descendants, but ina
bility to enjoy recreation without some "loud" amu
sement is surely a sign of degeneracy. In this con
nection it might be well to discuss the propriety of
dancing on Thanksgiving day, and to ask if this were
not another manifestation of the European influence
that has come to be so widely exerted on the customs
of the American people. A boistrous holiday is well
enough at times, but that nation which can take a
day from work and yet enjoy itself in a quiet and
orderly manner, gives evidence of a strength that can
be relied on.
There are some students who have an idea
that the best method of obtaining knowledg-) is by
borrowing the books of others. We do not need to
state the aphorism that this is the most contemptible
piece of thievery possible. But judging from the fre
quency of these losses of late the subject demands
more than passing notice. If there be students in the
school so poverty stricken as to be unable to purchase
school books, we as a school will cheerfully subscribe
to purchase them for those unfortunates. But for the
