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...Nation a notice of the new Shakspere* Society lately formed in England, Germany, and this country. From a notice of the Society sent out by Mr. Furnivall, its founder, we gather a few facts not yet generally known, in the hope that Harvard students may not be backward in appreciating the value of an effort "to do honor to Shakspere, to make out the succession of his plays, and thereby the growth of his mind and art." Mr. Furnivall complains that there are no such students of Shakspere in England as may be found in Germany, and gives...
FROM our fancied acquaintance with College matters, we have scarcely felt the important changes that have been going on during the last few years. It has been said, "experiments never go backward." As far as Harvard is concerned, few of the recent reforms have failed, hardly one having been abandoned. The substitution of the long vacation for several shorter and more rational ones, the perfecting of the elective system, with permission to anticipate the required studies, the privileges afforded to the Seniors of next year, - the last and most radical change, - these are the most popular, if not the most...
Although these reforms are only experiments as yet, their advantages seem great enough, with certain modifications, to warrant their continuance, and to give strong argument in favor of the assertion, "experiments never go backward...
...every class there are twenty men at least well qualified and willing to conduct a paper, nor are the rest at all backward with either their money or their good wishes. There is no disparagement in saying that the Advocate does not cover the whole ground; indeed, it does not pretend to. The perception of these facts has induced the Editors of the Magenta to offer a new paper to their fellow-students. Its general plan is as follows...