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Prof. Paine will himself conduct the performance of his "Nativity" at the festival of the Handel and Hadyn Society...
...have different estimates of the comparative values of these marks - one considering recitation and examination marks of equal value, and another counting examination marks of less value than recitation marks, etc. For commencement speakers ten "honor-girls" are chosen, on the basis of "general scholarship, literary ability and good conduct throughout the college course...
...said a good many years ago of a legal examination that not one of the examiners could have passed it. Strong in his own subject, each would have failed in one of the others. Might not a hint be taken from this that in future those who conduct the more severe examinations shall be required to pass them? Such a regulation would possibly be found to produce a marked effect, excluding the excessive zeal of examiners...
...atonement for the past. Nobody questions the extent of the evils of intemperance fostering nine-tenths of all crime, with its immense cost, equal to the amount of the manufacturing wages of the United States. Harvard men are always full of suggestions on the reform of the conduct of government, but on the question of temperance they are decidedly shrinking, and yet the question of temperance is by far the most important economical question of the day, throwing completely into the shade the reform of the tariff or of the civil service. Intemperance is the greatest evil in existence...
First, as to the price itself, $4.58, it is higher of course than any one wishes it to be; but it is not very much higher than those closely connected with the conduct of affairs expected. The term bill runs from December 27 to March 27. To get the amount of bills payable in these twenty-seven days of March, it is always necessary to make an estimate. The total number of weeks board is known, and for the March of this year was 2076. The amount of bills payable isgot by taking the same fractionable part of the bills...