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...Senior year the course is the De Senectute, Virgil's Bucolics, a book of Herodotus, and one of the Iliad, with geometry and logarithms. Besides these branches Shakespeare, Scott, and Goldsmith are studied to a certain extent in this year, and some time is devoted to French, physics, and modern and physical geography...
...unable to write a respectably good letter; meaning, thereby, one that is correct in grammar, spelling, and expression. That this is the case is not at all improbable, as men receive their degree on the average mark in all the studies; and thus a very low mark in a certain study, if accompanied by a high one in some other branch, does not preclude a degree...
This great disgrace (for, no matter how it is explained away, it is a disgrace) might be remedied by exacting many more themes and forensics from those who should fall below a certain mark than are now required. There is no doubt that if the men were required to write a theme, say once a fortnight, the more obvious faults of their style - if they can be said to have a style - would be so often brought to their notice, that even the dullest could not help correcting them. The College has already taken this matter in hand...
...CERTAIN we are, that in the person of Dr. Eliot, its President, Harvard has a living illustration of the beauty and power of a fine, neat, simple eloquence, which only need be adapted to each scholar's and each gentleman's native turn of feeling and thought, or his acquisitions, to realize our view of what is to be desired. - College Herald...
...year or two ago it occurred to the fertile mind of some student that an honest penny, not to say several honest dollars, might be turned by inducing the shopkeepers of Boston and Cambridge to pay a certain sum to him to print on a sheet of pasteboard their advertisements with the tabular view of the College exercises. These sheets should be distributed to the men in the several dormitories, and thus many an unsuspecting youth would be inveigled into buying the wares of the merchants. The plan was no sooner formed than executed; the students were not entrapped...