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...known to his student acquaintances. That he was a man of a good deal of natural shrewdness he often proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely to turn up at any moment at Washington or some more distant place. He was a self-announced candidate for President of the United States in every...
Through the spring the boat was tried a number of times but owing partly to delays caused by the leaking of certain parts difficult to repair, and partly to the feeling that whatever merit the inventions might have it would hardly be possible to obtain any practical advantage of them that year, the matter was allowed to drop, and no definite conclusion was reached...
...direction which our university is taking is one that is forced upon her by the progressive spirit of the age, and although the total of the courses given at Harvard may exceed that given in any other educational institution in America, a careful inspection would show that certain departments, particularly those of history and of political economy, are not up to the highest standard as regards variety. Comparing our electives with those offered at a great European university, like that of Berlin or that of Paris, the number will appear small. It must be borne in mind, however, that...
...race in which Jesus College has promised to take part, and in which probably one or two other Cambridge and Oxford colleges would be represented, Prof. Jasper T. Goodwin of Columbia College says: "The proposed plan is a most excellent one, if it can be brought about. There are certain obstacles, however, which would have to be met and overcome. In the first place, the colleges in this country would want to compete with a representative 'varsity crew, not with a crew which pretended to represent only one of the colleges of the university. I think Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell...
...very misleading statement on p. 231 that 'Unquestionably Congress can as little impair the obligation of contracts as a State," No court could declare a law of Congress unconstitutional merely upon the ground that it impaired the obligation of a contract. There is sometimes a certain vagueness and lack of confidence in our author's manner of discussing controverted questions, e. g., as regards the subject last mentioned, which is probably traceable to the circumstances under which his essay was composed...