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...heirs apparent, realize the possibility of being called to share the many-seated throne, and are hence disposed, in our particular lines of study, to avail ourselves of such courses as will, while harmonizing with that well-considered scheme, furnish us with the information necessary to a correct understanding of the great financial, political, and social problems which public men are called upon to solve. Such information, however, we are left to pick out for ourselves; and since we are obliged, in order to get at the precious bits which are of actual use, to take and digest an elective...
...taking three steps to each word. And there is so great a fondness for attempting this latter kind of music manifest at all times, that it seems almost unaccountable that the modest Italian should not be permitted to rest beneath our windows and tutor the untuneful ear into a correct knowledge of its favorite airs...
SOME instructors have the habit of causing their examination-books to be corrected by other persons. This practice seems to us unjust, as the instructor is the only person who can make a just estimate of the knowledge shown by his examination. In the pursuit of the course he is supposed to become acquainted, to some degree, with the strong and weak points of the students who take his elective, and the examination shows how far his estimate has been correct; further, it affords him an opportunity of giving a student credit for apparent improvement. On the other hand...
...house, this going to theatres en masse; and if a party of undergraduates, who have not enjoyed the experience of more than six months of college life, occupy conspicuous seats in a Boston theatre and display more hilarity than dignity in their deportment, is the Boston press going to correct their shortcomings by designating them as the "Harvard...
...first consists of societies which have some serious object in view, which may be roughly described as the pursuit of Cape Flyaway; the second of open societies, which are devoted to amusement; the third of clubs proper, where you can get wine and cigars and gossip of the most correct sort at the cheapest price; and the fourth of secret societies, of which the objects are unknown and the names are forbidden words...