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...students of Yale University, request that you print a warning to beware of a man representing a certain New York engraving company, selling a bronze seal, banners, etc. Visiting Yale he made several hundred dollars illegally...
...oldest University in the land, Harvard has perhaps the fewest traditions. Probably that is for the best, for this University has always stood for freedom of thought and action. But certain observances which exert an unconscious influence upon all who live under them are not inconsistent with true freedom. When opportunities for these arise, let us not be ashamed to display an interest in them, whether the interest is prompted by mere sentiment or by a deeper realization of that which lies behind the public expression...
...Faculty has decided to make certain alterations in the regulations relating to admission examinations. Under the present system, the requirements in elementary Latin consist of an alternative examination in the first four books of Virgil's Eneid or selected myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses. To this is to be added the further option of substituting "selected speeches of Cicero." This last is defined in a note as follows: "The speeches of Cicero referred to in the definition of elementary Latin are the speeches on the Manilian Law, Catiline, Archias, and Marcellus...
...master in one year. The coaches must have an intimate knowledge not from hearsay, but from personal experience, and must have the help of men who have had training along similar lines in order to effect their purpose. If the policy remains consistent and progressive along certain broad lines the old players can give the benefit of their experience along these same lines, and can step in and help when necessary...
...Criticism of Room-mates," Mr. Porter has treated a good subject in a sprightly manner. He obviously aims at novelty of expression, and sometimes hits the mark. The author of "The Best of It," has, on the other hand, conspicuously failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical...