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...Amherst Glee Club is fast acquiring a notable reputation. It has even travelled to Oberlin. We wonder that the Faculty of that back-action college allowed such levity within its hallowed walls...
...next issue of The Harvard Register will be the last." Such is the publisher's announcement; and we cannot but think that the reasons which he gives for his action are convincing. Aside from the lack of pecuniary support, the proposed publication of the University Bulletin, for free distribution, edited by Mr. Winsor and a staff composed of representatives of the various faculties, will deprive the Register of its only raison d'etre; nor can it be denied that the Bulletin, under the management of our able Librarian, will be on the whole a more efficient and satisfactory publication. While...
...student in his work so much as the energy with which he sees an instructor carry on his elective; his enthusiasm seldom fails to kindle his pupils. It would, of course, be too much to expect every instructor to furnish periodicals at his own expense. But Professor Bartlett's action, let us hope, may suggest to the Corporation the steps by which such pleasant collateral means of study might be added to other departments...
...entirely approve of the action now pending in the Natural History Society, of reducing its time of meeting from once a fortnight to once a month, and hope that it will become a law at the next meeting. It is appropriate that the Natural History Society should take the lead in this matter, as it is the oldest of what may be called the learned societies in College; and if the numerous younger societies and clubs which meet for purposes of instruction could be induced to follow this example, we have no doubt that the change would be most beneficial...
...honorary degree of a doctor. Not the worshipper of rude force, not the fanatical hater of the negro, did it thus honor, but the matchless painter of the French Revolution, the eloquent preacher of hero-worship, and the devout apostle of a gospel which preaches faith, action, and sincerity...