Word: various
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...undergraduates who take Natural History as an elective; this book was to contain simply a description of animals, leaving the student to draw his own inferences from their organization. He had, withal, contemplated writing a work which should show the affinities existing between the various animals of natural history...
...fellowship" between some of the principal contestants. And is that ambition a laudable one, which allows a Princeton or a Harvard man to be careless of distinction in the sight of his Alma Mater alone, but would spur him on, with the pleasing hope of reading in the various journals of the country, that Smith of Princeton or Harvard took a Greek prize at the intercollegiate contest? We think not, decidedly...
...remaining officers were chosen by acclamation, there being only one candidate for each place. Their names are given below. At the conclusion of the election instruction on various points was given the committees, and it was voted that the Class Committee ascertain the expediency of placing a stained-glass window in Memorial Hall. After cheers for the officers the meeting was dissolved. The following is a complete list of the officers chosen...
...have spoken of publishers. Of the guild of middle-men or retailers we would like to say, from experience, that buyers will find it to their advantage to proceed with extreme caution in making bargains, for among these men "the tricks that are vain" are as many and various as those of our friend in the poem...
...communication bearing rather hard on the two Sophomore societies, the Institute and the Athenaeum. It accuses them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then, in the second place...