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...University, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Bent's "Short Sayings of Great Men," says, "I am glad to have at my elbow in my own study - as I have had for some days - in a convenient nook in my official den, another good friend of a book, to make me seem to others wiser than I am, and to show me to myself more deficient than ever...
...colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February, and all the delicacies that belong to the menu of a first-class hotel. Such a thing as a marked violation of good breeding is almost unknown at these tables. For six years from...
...first thing to greet us, as we come back from the Christmas vacation, is the Harvard Index as tastefully gotten up as ever. The Index has become one of the institutions of the college, and is always comprehensive and reliable. After looking over the book and noticing the valuable additions, nobody will be disposed to withhold the indulgence for delay, which the compiler asks in his preface...
...Greek and Latin the requisitions for mid-course honors are similar to those at Harvard. The special subjects for 1883 are in Greek, four books of the Odyssey; in Latin, the twenty-first book of Livy and two books of Virgil. It will be seen that these requirements are very much below those at Harvard...
...final honors in these subjects, the candidate, after completing his course and passing examinations similar to our own, must be examined (in 1883) in Greek on Sophocles' O. T. and Plato's Gorgias; and in Latin on Plautus' Rudens, Terence's Andria and one book of Cicero's De Natura Deorum. Here again the requirements appear rather low. The requirements for honors of both classes in the other subjects are similar to those in the subjects already mentioned. In the modern languages special authors are to be prepared for examination, and the history of the country is also included. There...