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THE subjects for the Second Junior Themes, Division A, are: "Mr. Thackeray gravely compromised his character, when he invited the people of the United States to laugh at his caricatures of the Hanoverian Kings of England"; and "Professor Hughes, it is said, does not intend to secure patent rights on...
Resolved, That we sincerely mourn the loss of one who, by his manly character and his fidelity to duty, by his kindly disposition and his unassuming worth, won, in the brief time he was with us, the respect and friendship of all whose privilege it was to know him.
"The purposes which the college paper accomplishes in American college life are numerous and important. It is, in the first place, a mirror of undergraduate sentiment, and is either scholarly or vulgar, frivolous or dignified, as are the students who edit and publish it. A father, therefore, debating where to...
IN Mr. Moses King's little book entitled "Harvard and its Surroundings," which is a guide-book of a character worthy of the great University of New England, is the following unique advertisement, which, after an appropriate verse to the air of "Fair Harvard," proceeds as follows:-
The man must have had a remarkable mind. He saw through the devices that men invent to conceal the transitory nature of everything on earth, and he resolved to make the most of the present. In this side of character he is thoroughly Horatian. One would fancy he was reading...