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Wanted.- Harvard students to canvass for Edward King's new book-"Europe in Calm and Storm," which contains portraits of leading European statesmen. $300 easily made during the summer. Apply to-day at 59 Matthews...
...freshmen that is truly original: if they fear a defeat on account of a weak team, they "crawl" as their freshman eleven did last fall, or their '87 nine did a year ago; if they have an unusually strong team, they win one game and then in a calm way refuse to play any more games because they have the series "cold," as they claim. Now we do not claim that our freshmen could have won the series had they played the requisite number of games; they probably could not have won. But what we protest against, is the cool...
...time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already...
...save one-is beautiful and satisfactory to the eye; the turf is faultlessly smooth and green, the track carefully rolled; the brilliant costumes of the players are in striking contrast to the emerald lawn on which they stand; the benches are filled with radiant beauty, and everything is deliciously calm and soothing to our artistic feelings. But, while lounging in the shade under the walls of the old Pudding building, we notice that after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over...
...position until Monday, and they were obliged to crowd into the small boat-house and embark from the small float. On account of the high winds which are wont to prevail during this time of year, the water has been rather rough. Yesterday, however, the Charles was as calm as a mill-pond...