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...lady on whom I next called - her age I judge to be about twenty-seven - spoke with feeling, a good deal of feeling, on the subject. She said, "Any young lady who married before she was thirty committed an irreparable error." This saddened me for a time [doubtful, state how long], for had my mother entertained the same views on the subject I should yet be in knicker-bockers [illogical...
...satisfactory results, for my friends all took the same view of the matter, namely, that I was hopelessly gone [gone where?] on some one, and would not listen to reason [bad taste, too great an assumption]; so I have resolved to drop the matter till I have reached the age of acknowledged celibacy [vague...
...most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars...
...unheard-of innovation has been introduced at Harvard. A professor actually allowed his students to take an examination without proctors, trusting to the honor of his men! This was done in the age of "elective" studies, "voluntary" recitations, and reserved-book thieves. It is idle to inquire how this came about. Meanwhile, the query suggests itself, If one instructor trusts his men in Philosophy, why should not others trust them in History, Mathematics, Physics, and what not? Or has Philosophy such a charm about itself that in its sublime presence men will adhere to truth? We suggest these questions...
...President has sent out a circular letter of inquiry to students' parents, and to those students that are of age, as to "whether the students were accustomed to attend daily family prayers before they came to College." "The wisdom of making the attendance of undergraduates at the daily morning prayers of the College voluntary" is probably to be tested by the answers to this inquiry...