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...HAVE just received a Spirit of the Times containing an account of the fall races at Harvard, and also the Treasurer's Report on the finances of the University Club. Harvard seems at last to have awakened to the fact that if she wishes to retain the high place among American colleges which is hers traditionally, she must exert herself to secure the best possible training for the men who row her boat...
...golden month of October, according to the glowing account of mine host of the Samoset, Plymouth presents attractions to the sportsman and lover of natural scenery unsurpassed by those of any locality on the Atlantic coast. The climate is equable, being about twenty degrees cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than below the Cape. For a distance of some fifteen or twenty miles to the south and southwest of Plymouth the country is sparsely settled, and retains the wild beauty of its primeval state...
...philosophy or religious belief, the fact of the dissolution of the body at the end of a space of time which is as nothing to the eternity which has preceded and will succeed it is one of supreme import, which, as rational creatures, we must take into account in forming any belief...
...matter. From my own experience, and from the experience of those who have been members of the prominent chess-clubs in this country, I should judge that the forming of a club, and keeping the members interested in its proceedings, was a thing easily undertaken, and on account of the interest that has been lately manifest, it appears to me that now is the time to begin. It is not so evident, however, in which way it is best to commence, and on thinking the subject over, it has occurred to me to suggest a few different ways of doing...
...have received an anonymous article for publication, which its author will not, of course, see in our columns; but which deserves some notice on account of its object. The subject of impure conversation in college is one that to be handled effectively requires both abilities as a writer and a thorough knowledge of those to whom it is addressed. No mere decrying against a lamentable fact can be of any possible use, and threats are worse than idle. Our columns are open to any able pen in the interests of reform, but we must know the hand that holds...