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...student now enters Harvard who cannot pass the entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, etc.," the writer of the letter says that at his school the preparation for no college is so severe as that for Harvard. He also says that many a tutor will engage to fit a boy for Brown. Amherst or any of the "similar colleges" in one year less than he will engage to fit a boy for Harvard or Yale. He ends by citing an instance of a student who had passed the admission examinations to Boston University, but who decided to go to Harvard...
...will be given by the united choirs of St. Paul's Church, Boston, and Harvard University. It was the old English custom to have songs and short cantatas at Harvest time and this was written for that purpose. The soprano solo will be sung by the boy soprano of St. Paul's Church, who has a beautiful voice; and there will be various other solos also...
...Hegel. In character and life Hegel is perhaps the least imposing of the real first class thinkers. He was in nowise either graceful or heroic, but simply a selfseeking, laborious, shrewd, quarrelsome man, faithful to his office and to his flatterers, and proud of his barbaric style. As a boy he was pedantic and thoroughly objective. Yet even in the diary which he kept when he was fifteen years old there appear warnings of the deep delight he was later to take in the paradoxical, and the professional mind-dissecting air which followed him through life...
...condition of affairs which, everyone maintains, exists now-a-days at Harvard. It reflects upon everyone in college, for if a group of representative men, chosen only because they can sing, cannot be trusted, then the college at large is not trustworthy. There is a deal of school-boy tone attached to all the arguments which we have heard so far against the trip which is humiliating to say the least. If the fact that the great majority of Harvard under-graduates are just as much interested in upholding the good name of the college as any of the graduates...
...dwelt upon. Through all the temptations of a newspaper editor's life, Bryant never swerved an inch from what seemed to him the path of honor. An interesting incident in his life, now made public for the first time, is a letter written in 1814, when Bryant was a boy. He was much excited over the war with England, and the way in which "His Imbecility," as he called Madison, treated New England; and urged the enlistment of state troops in Massachusetts, on exactly the same arguments which he so earnestly fought against when advanced by secessionists...