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...present we have only one, although that course is esteemed one of the most popular and useful in the college. Why so little attention outside of this one course, is paid to a subject of interest to all both in a practical and a scholarly sense, it is difficult to say. Harvard through its graduates and instructors at various times has always taken a leading place in the development of the study of the history of this country. The mere mention of such names as Bancroft or Sparks, and in recent years of Higginson, and Lodge, and Morse, and Henry...
...Muller, at Oxford, England. She is perhaps the first learned Brahmin who has ever crossed the ocean. She is a descendant of the ancient Brahmin family, Sandilya. Her correct pronunciation of the Sanscrit, and the astonishing ease, with which she composes and recites Sanscrit verses in the most difficult metre, is a marvel...
...been suspended in Cambridge, and once, carried elsewhere for a whole year. Both of these periods of absence were during the Revolutionary war and the cause was military exigency in each case. At that time the college numbered so few that a change of location was not quite as difficult as it would be today with our hundreds of students and more instructors than the students of 1775. The first exodus was in May 1775. The provincial army was fast gathering in Cambridge to take part in the siege of Boston. Quarters were needed for the troops. In this emergency...
...were a good selection, being not easily comprehensible and requiring perfect execution to make them effective. one could still hear through the playing of the Pierian a certain appreciation and coherence. If we may be allowed a suggestion we would say that with persistent work upon music not too difficult they will be able to play better than any set of men the college has seen collected in its orchestra...
...Hill Thursday. The first two events were well contested, and the shooting of all the competitors was unusually good. In the clay bird match, Mr. Godwin made the highest score yet recorded in any match of the club, breading nine out of the ten shot at, -a feat rendered difficult by the strong wind. A match at five pigeons was shot, at the close of the two regular shot, at the close of the two regular matches. The summary of the events follows...