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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arrangement of "clouds," and the effect of moonlight on the complexion, I have been making the necessary preparations for my long, and, it is to be hoped, profitable voyage. Fifteen pounds of "Lone Jack" was my first investment. I have laid in this large supply, as it will be difficult to procure the correct weed along the route. As Athens is on the programme, I have taken Volume VIII. of Grote to refresh my memory of Socrates and the Prytaneum. The library of the "Ontario" seemed to lack books for light reading, so I invested in a choice assortment...
...first game of the fall on Wednesday last opened very encouragingly, and tested well the nerve of the new players. Each man in his position had something to do. Holden's assist from the out field, Dow's capture of a difficult fly, after a hard run, Howe's play at third, and the pitching and catching of Ernst and Tyng, were noteworthy features of the game. The base-hits, though few, were well timed, and the batting generally hard. A return game will be played with the same club to-morrow at 3 P. M. on the Boston grounds...
...translations, with what few introductory and explicative remarks may be necessary for a full understanding of the subject, and offer one the best possible opportunity to renew his acquaintance with some authors, perhaps neglected of late, or to make fresh acquaintances in new fields. It would probably be difficult to select men better qualified to explain their separate subjects than those mentioned above, and one has only to go once and he will continue to go, if he has any real love for literature. If not, perhaps it were better he were not here. It is a common plea that...
DURING the past year the College has been more or less stirred by the attacks on the character and behavior of Harvard students. It is difficult to say just when and where these attacks originated; but perhaps the ball was set rolling by the strictures on our religious opinions made during the course of Monday Lectures by the Rev. Joseph Cook, and by the discussion concerning Young Harvard which was carried on in the Transcript. There is no doubt that the men who made these attacks honestly believed what they said, and that they spoke with more or less...
...highest in Philosophy, one in Physics; '77, sixteen honors, three highest in Mathematics, one in Philosophy. It will be seen that in these last six years no student had taken any honors in Mathematics, until Seventy-seven took three highest in that subject, which is acknowledged the most difficult of all. But the chief glory of Seventy-seven is that one of its number graduated summa cum lands, and his name, as everybody knows, is Gerrit Smith Sykes. If it could boast of nothing else, this alone would fairly entitle the class to the highest distinction. We feel that...