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How the festive penny-a-liner of the Post, who delights in expatiating on the "bumptiousness" of college students, must lament over the present quiet and lamb-like behavior universally displayed by collegians. We pity the poor man and vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities of journalistic literature, and why he should have been so cruel to us, is a question not easily answered. It may be that, at some remote period, he was a disappointed candidate for a degree, and, on this account, cherishes only bitter feelings against the whole college world. This reason for such caustic satire seemed at first plausible, but, on re-reading several editorials, nothing was found that would for a moment lead one to suspect him of having received a liberal college education. If dyspepsia is the cause of his sourness, which we are inclined to think is the case, let him carefully read the advertisements in the paper he represents, and among them he will surely find some remedy.

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