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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...advantages. That these advantages are appreciated by the students of the University is evinced by the increase in the number seeking instruction there, it more than doubling each year. In order to meet this rather unexpected result, the corps of instructors had to be enlarged, more specimens of certain species had to be obtained, and a some-what different organization in the laboratories had to be effected. These things were successfully accomplished. The services of a gentleman from Zurich, Switzerland, have been secured for the lecture-room; also those of Mr. MacCready, one of our own naturalists. The laboratories will...
...merely an object of local but of national pride. Fortunate it is, too, that an interest in these studies, and it is to be hoped not a temporary one, has sprung up, not only here but elsewhere, just at a time when metaphysical investigations are awaiting the solution of certain problems in Natural History...
...trouble. It appears that Captain Cook and Mr. Dunning, President of the Yale Navy, do not agree upon all points in boating matters, and, in consequence, either one or the other will have to resign. There is some dissatisfaction among the students at the proposed method of conducting certain affairs, and, as a result, "we see Mr. Cook's opinion disregarded and his candidate defeated"; thereupon, he "resigns his captaincy with feelings of regret...
...Third Annual Regatta is a thing of the past. About its results we have but little to say; in fact, too much has been already said. Certain newspapers, with a mistaken friendliness, which we ought, perhaps, to be grateful for, but with a want of delicacy which all must blame, have hotly fought what they considered to be our battle, making Harvard seem dissatisfied with the decision of Mr. Babcock. The fact is that, under the circumstances, there was but one decision to be made, and that was the one which Mr. Babcock made, and no member of the crew...
Oratory is the other field of usefulness, in training for which our places of education are wanting. The mere faculty of expressing one's thoughts with facility and grace is not uncommon among us; but behind and above all this there are certain conditions, indispensable to the making of the real orator, consisting, as the treatment of this subject by Cicero has admirably shown, in a general and detailed acquaintance with all departments of knowledge. To satisfy these conditions, by commencing the training here and marking out a distinct practical road for the student to follow afterward, should...