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...entry-book for the winter meeting of the H. A. A. will be opened at the Gymnasium next Monday. All entries for the first day's events must be made before 5 P. M., Friday, March...
...course it is only the less important features of the book that we have criticised. We doubt whether it will accomplish its apparent object of convincing unbelievers in co-education, who, by the by, must not be undeservedly confounded with unbelievers in equal education; but it will certainly furnish pleasant and light reading to anybody who takes it up; and we are happy to state that the author's English is far better than her French...
...sympathies of the College are extended to those gentlemen in Nat. Hist. 3 who were disappointed in their expectation of finding on the paper the four questions they had anticipated and prepared. Perhaps next time they will trust more to the text-book than to the voice of rumor...
...GOOD deal of disappointment was expressed because the Catalogue this year contained no examination-papers. In the choice of electives these papers were a valuable guide, since they showed the nature of an elective much more clearly than any title or list of books studied could do. In preparing for an examination, also, the papers of past years in that study showed the relative importance of the matter to be reviewed, and were an excellent test of the thoroughness of the review. There were, however, objections against binding up examination-papers with the Catalogue, for this increased the size...
...While improvements are in vogue at the Library, we wish to call attention to one desirable change. Every one who studies there must notice how much easier it is to concentrate his attention upon his books now than it was when, every time he raised his eyes, he caught sight of some fair maiden shut up in a dim recess behind an impassable bar, just like the heroine of a fairy-tale. All this is changed; but still the obstacle to study is not wholly removed. The most inveterate grind can scarcely maintain his composure, and calmly shuffle those puzzling...