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...first contact of the British party with the new world will be made this morning when it is met by Professor Moore, for although the steamer arrived at Commonwealth pier yesterday afternoon its passengers come ashore for the first time this morning...
Possibilities for study in the languages of Germany, France, and Italy are to be offered through contact with the University of Geneva students. These who wish to take yodeling will have an opportunity to practice under recognized masters, it is said, but no University credit will be given in this subject...
...considerable, proportion of the students who come to Harvard have but a vague conception of the institution they are entering. Particularly is this true of boys whose geographical residence or family antecedents have not brought them into contact, with Harvard man and Harvard laden. Arrived in Cambridge they may feel slightly bewildered, sometimes lost. In an atmosphere essentially strange to their past experlonee. Acclimatization to Harvard life will inevitably come of itself, especially since Harvard demands no conformity to specific standards, but it is safe to say that numerous students go through their entire four years of college without penetrating...
These suggestions, however, do not mean that there ought to be no contact whatever between student boards of editors, and deans, faculty advisers, instructors in journalism and other officers. Far from it. Indeed, I believe that student editors will seek such advice and will appeal to maturer judgment to a far greater degree when such consultation is voluntary and spontaneous, than when they feel that the adviser or censor is their natural enemy and that it is part of the game to trick him by any legitimate or illegitimate means...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...