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...manage the classics well enough, and with the use of ponies, which many think now legitimately open to them, for a year may get on fairly. Fortunately most enter advanced a little beyond the entrance limits in mathematics, and so can get through the Freshman work in that branch. But the work grows harder as they advance, and from their very strength at entering, many fall slowly, may be, but surely, in the class...
...hope that a wire gauze will be put over the west window of Alumni Hall to protect it from the injury that a chance branch blown by the wind, or a wanton passer, might inflict upon...
...result of the foot-races for the Bennett prizes would be most humiliating to Harvard had she ever given any encouragement to this branch of athletic sports. As it is, the result shows that she cannot expect to walk away with beautiful silver prizes by sending a few practically untrained men at the last moment, without even knowing whether they are the best men to represent her or not. We hope this most interesting department of athletics may be given more prominence another year, with the addition of leaping and throwing contests; and that Harvard. if she does anything, will...
...writer then turns his attention to the Tripos. Although he says that the men "capable of the most prolonged and severe intellectual labor are those who have distinguished themselves at the Universities," yet he doubts the advisability of forcing young men to devote three years to one single branch of study, as is done at Cambridge; for " it cannot be denied that in such cases the development is strangely one-sided," and "the objectionable tendency of excessive athletic competition is of the same kind." He goes on to say that, although he does not believe there is any physical injury...
...wanting a good deal of interest in reading Shakspere at Harvard, and it is pleasant to mention a small society in one of the classes last year which met once a week for the study of his plays. It may not, then, be too much to hope that a branch society may be formed here, especially as "to such societies proofs of the papers to be read in London will be sent in advance, so that each branch society can, if it pleases, read at each of its meetings the same paper that is read at the parent society...