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...existence, it must still be remembered that its permanence and future usefulness depend largely upon the careful selection of a competent board of officers for the ensuing year. The actual success of the society, however, depends more directly upon the energy and efficiency of the superintendent. It is difficult to appreciate to what a great extent the past year's success has been due to the painstaking and thorough management of the present incumbent. Therefore it is with considerable concern that we learn that the present superintendent contemplates giving up the office. His reasons for this step are entirely personal...
...than over any other route yet talked of. Of course the most politic plan is to run the elevated road up to Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good as now, it will be difficult to inaugurate the elevated railway scheme within the city proper. Public sentiment here is undoubtedly against it, and the only place where there is an immediate demand for an elevated road is between Cambridge and Boston...
...upon English authors. According to the present arrangement this course will cease this week, the last lecture occurring Thursday afternoon. The hour thus left will be devoted to the study of the text-book in Rhetoric. Why Prof. Hill's course is not continued throughout the year it is difficult to say. One hour a week would undoubtedly suffice for the instruction in Rhetoric, a subject which, as now taught, we agree with the writer in the Traveller in considering altogether too elementary for the sophomore year. The second hour devoted to this study could far more profitably be given...
...difficult to say what aroused John W. Forney, editor of Progress, to discuss the "shameful outbreaks" of college students, at this time when no outbreaks have occurred for several months. But as Mr. Forney may always be considered a well-wisher of the college world his words deserve notice. He has a good word to say for the college press: "It is pleasant," he says, "to see that the college papers so far from defending the ill conduct of students, invariably condemn it in unmeasured terms. One would suppose that the students so censured by their own companions would guard...
...courses the candidate is required to have won "mid-course honors" in that subject. These "mid-course honors" correspond to our second year honors, but they are given in History, Political Science, French and German, as well as in Greek, Latin and Mathematics. The special requirements appear somewhat less difficult than those at Harvard...