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The 22d of February is Washington's birthday. It is observed as a legal holiday throughout the land. State and national governments unite in doing honor to the memory of almost the only man in our history concerning whose character and services there is no difference of opinion. Banks, post...
THERE seems to be among many college graduates and students a disposition, fostered, no doubt, by the character of our most popular studies, to consider as rather unworthy our notice anything so simple and rudimental as the faculty of memory. We give a great deal of time, and wisely, to...
Another reason of our shortness of memory is, without doubt, the practice of cramming for examinations. An impression made on the brain during the hours between midnight and morning is not likely to be of the most permanent character. The utmost ambition of some men seems to be to retain...
A FRIEND has taken the trouble to send us an extract from the New York Journal of Commerce which denounces college boat races as being a nucleus of blacklegs, betting, and every instrument of Satan to give young men "their first lessons in the evil world." The article, as the...
THE Intercollegiate Literary Association of the United States was duly formed, with constitution and officers, at Hartford on Thursday, February 19. Representatives were present from fourteen colleges: Amherst, Brown, Bowdoin, Cornell, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse University, Trinity, Williams, Wesleyan, and the University of the City of New York...