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...thought so much about that line of words in the catalogue, that I so breathed into them an individuality, a soul, that Benjamin Emilius became one of my daily companions during those last autumn days when the leaves fall and the bursar rejoices in a fresh opportunity to answer numerous and voluminous questions with that laconic brevity so characteristic of that functionary...
...herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...
...general announcements concerning the honors will be made at 4 o'clock, and it is desirable that all persons concerned, not only those who have already determined to be candidates, but also those who are thinking of it, should be present at that time. Prof. White will answer special enquiries from...
...would seem to be a necessary motto for the two representative schemes of cooperation at Harvard, and the result either way rests with the dubious factor of public spirit among her students. There has now come a time when the notorious question of "Harvard indifference" can receive a categorical answer, and the burden of the responsibility for a positive or a negative answer rests equally with each and every Harvard student in this year...
...work done may be estimated by one who has pursued a certain course of study with some particular object or profession in view, but to the average student, who has been to college merely for the sake of "getting an education," the question is a hard one to answer. Because we have taken a large number of courses in different subjects, does not follow that our time has been wasted, nor that the student who has confined his mind to one particular course of study has the better education. The man who leads a mercantile life after graduation...