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EACH year our newspapers and magazines are interesting themselves more and more with the affairs of other countries, so that it is now no uncommon thing to find half the editorial space in a morning journal, or a long article in a leading review, devoted to the last kaleidoscopic change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW ELECTIVE IN HISTORY. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

I HAD been grinding until late, and to rest my mind before retiring for the night, had taken up the "Verses from the Advocate." I could hear the wind blowing round the corner of the house, the snow beating against the window-panes, and the whistle of the draught in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MIDNIGHT VISITOR. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

I know that some believe that the object of these examinations is to obtain from the students thorough daily work, and that they ought not to study up for them. Against the end proposed I have nothing to say, - it is what is needed here above all things, - but that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUR EXAMINATIONS. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

AT a meeting of the McGill foot-Ball Club on 23d November, the question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

First Half. - Harvard had the kick-off, with the wind against them, and seven minutes after obtained a goal by a very good drop-kick by Blanchard. During the next forty minutes no advantage was gained by either side, although both struggled hard to send the ball between the goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »