Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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VY Comet. “v |}eade r i ; Department:. IIK Academic Department is com- posed of over three hundred students and twenty co-eds, under the supervis- ion and tutelage of the Faculty and Senior class. There is little in the daily life of the hit. worthy to he chronicled, for it is especially characterized by monotony. He rises in the morning at various hours, eats his meals regularly, at- tends tin lectures, cuts chapel and gym- nasium, and goes to bed to get ready to repeat the performance on the morrow. Every Sunday morning at II:').'» lie leaves the campus for church, and the next evening explains to his cousin that he felt horribly uncomfortable on the Nicholson-house steps, but he had to wait for a friend. He goes to the Vendome, when the show is “under the auspices of the V. M. C. A.” and it costs him a quarter. lie is not particularly well versed in Math., and therefore falls an easy victim to the West End ten-cent scheme, lie writes home occasionally for money to buy books and to put in the missionary box. Thouglmot as green as the Theologues or Pharmacy men, he is generally an insignit cant creature, unless he belongs to the Senior class, a learned coterie, noted, too, for their humility. The rest of his time is taken up in futile efforts to say something funny about the hats t the aforesaid Seniors, or in protesting to the Faculty that In is not in train- ing for a street-car mule. The co-eds spend much of their timeat home, though they devote a lew hours every week to playing Krminic on the V. M. C. A. organ. The Fac- ulty is composed t thirteen scholars of wide reputation, zealously devoted to the sole purpose ol raising tin standard of the Fniversity, each trying to get more work out of his men than any ol his colleagues can. All of the faces are familiar to our readers, with the exception ol Dr. Hemis, the political economist, who teaches a few aspiring hits, how to save “Fncle Sam from bankruptcy. Dr. Vaughn has borne off the palm in the way of tough text-books, but we refrain from giving the name of the author of the

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TVa© Comet. FACULTY k [At IIUIIC.] I.AMh»N C. «, RLANI», 1.1. I».. Chancellor. T. II. FEAREY, Adjunct-Professor of Physics. WALKER LEWIS, Chaplain. Prolessor oi History uml Political Economy. CAS1MIH ZMANOWK'Z, .M., Professor of Moilern IsiniMiaircs ami Literatures. .1AM I » II. KI UK I.A N 1 , A.M., Pn.l). (Leipsici, Professor of Latin Uiii 'iia e au l Literatures. WILLIAM L. M'DLEY, M.H.. Professor of t 'lieiuistry. .1. T. MctilLL, R.S.. Pu l ., Adjunct Professor of ('lieiuistry. KbWAUI W. REM IS, Pn.l»., Led u rerun Economics aiul Constitutional History. I'STI N II. MERRILL, A M., I list ructor iu Elocution.

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Cornel. 24 series fi»r fear it might serve as an advertisement. The immediate consequence of this Inis prodneed a btul olfeci in the moral philosophy instructor, tor this series has eclipsed the groat Schwegler in imintclligihility, and one no longer, as of yore, sees on rainy night» an umbrella and a lantern on the croquet grounds; nay. even there are many sunshiny «lays when his mallet strikoth not the sphere, for black melancholy hath seized him, and even his “one gallus joke is no more. hr. Salford has begun to ask his class if he has told them of the formation of stalactites and stalagmites, while hr. I.askcr vill counteracts alt the good clfects of the late revival with his Anglo-Saxon. The other professors are pursuing the even tenor of their way. only disturbed hy isions of final examination chirogr.iphy. The Faculty still meets every Tuesday afternoon in the Chan- cellor's olllce to gossip about the students'character and sit down on petitions; they have also draw n up resolutions favoring co-education, and are laughing at the unsophis- ticated student, who. not versed in ways of the world in general, and the fair sex in partietilar. has taken the other side, and now prays for mountains to cover him. As for the rest of the nets of this learned hotly, are they not written in the published examin- ation papers ?