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...wish to make indignant protest against the method pursued by a certain popular lecturer of Harvard in showing his displeasure at the unfortunate presence of those who are not students in his audiences. It would be a very simple draft upon his sense of courtesy to ask them politely to withdraw, but to drive them out by acts and words far from gentlemanly is a strange proceeding in Harvard halls. Let him remember that it was once said of Emerson, "He stood up, just as if he thought other people were as good...
...quite certain that no action will be taken by either the Faculty or the Athletic Committee, before President Eliot's return, about...
...accomodations for fifty men, from each of whom a fee of $500 is required. As Germany has no station of her own, the Naples station receives a subsidy of from $12,000 to $15,000 from that country, in return for which the German university student are allowed certain privileges at Naples. The Italian government also contributes toward the support of the Naples station. A report is published by the station periodically, of the results of the investigations carried on by different students...
Boylston Chemical Club. Papers: A Certain Dissiccating Apparatus, Mr. H. G. Parker; On Calcium Carbide, Mr. P. P. Sharples; On Argon, Mr. S. Bell. Boylston...
...that a young boy, by the experience of a boarding school life, is made manly, self-reliant, independent. The words are often used with very little distinction, but the underlying idea is that the boy at an early age begins to enjoy the privileges and to be credited with certain of the powers of a man, and so becomes decidedly active in shaping his own destiny. There is truth in these statements, but it needs all the American's love of self-sufficiency, and a little thoughtlessness besides, to accept that truth as an effective plea for the boarding school...