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...entitled "Poor Harvard Students," in the Boston Herald of January 3. Permit me to quote certain statements that were made in it: "There are at least eight men out of the twenty-five who took-scholarships in the junior class at Harvard last year who could have well got along without them...
...then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even...
...general reference-works are, will be copiously lighted with stationery fixtures. The "stack," which is much less apt to be used at night, will be supplied with transferable lamps which will be attached by a long wire to the end of each stack of books and may be carried along in the hand...
...morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each moment to sink ankle deep...
...have never before been aware of; but I am quite sure that even the theses which are read in the class, (and which consume a vast amount of time uselessly,) are not perfect guide books to the "literary path," and the "finest bits of scenery" along it. I would like F. W. K. to answer, - without previously consulting an English literature, - what he knows about the authors I mentioned in my letter, and whether he gained his knowledge of them from independent research or the English Department? His reference to the composition courses is equally flimsy as that to English...