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Editors Magenta, - My room is 9 Thayer, not 19, as stated in last number of the Magenta. Please correct, as it's the occasion of much inconvenience, and greatly oblige
...bundle it off to oblivion among the other "lost arts," with all possible speed. Unless the Boylston prizes, which we owe to a private individual and not to the College itself, be considered an exception, oratory has here no recognized existence whatever. Thus Mr. Adams is literally correct when he says on this point: "At present nothing of the kind is attempted...
...that many of our Eastern Colleges publish what is decidedly inferior in quality. It is by criticism alone that what is of such a kind can be cast aside. And when we have criticised, our duty is done. It is not becoming that we should suggest what is eminently correct...
...examinations are searching, and fully represent the ordinary college requirements in these branches. In fact, some of the specimen papers present a singularly familiar aspect Much good advice is also given on the manner of pursuing the different studies, - particularly Classics, - which, if followed, will go far to correct the very popular faults of second-rate instruction...
...only is it true that the College authorities studidiously avoid anything which might influence the religious opinions of a student, but the students themselves are not sharply divided by doctrinal lines, nor do they make their religion, when they have any, a barrier to separate them from others less correct than themselves. We often see the member of one denomination figuring as an earnest listener to the prayers and sermons of another; and those who are in any way remarkable for their strictness of life are seldom, if ever, taunted with the charge of exclusiveness. The good effect of such...