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...print in 1774 through the Old Colony Society of Plymouth. The society got the story from a centenarian who was then in the neighborhood. This man, in turn, got it from an intimate of his, a centenarian of the proceeding generation, and he being born in 1631, got it direct from the Fathers themselves...
...fellow." The "Spade" and "Pillow" were given to the greatest dig and to the laziest man respectively. A "Spoon" was presented to the greatest eater, a Comb to the man who best represented that class; and a Knife to the greatest "cutter" all by the men who were there direct opposites. Music and a spread ended the festivities. Dartmouth being a temperance college nothing but water and lemonade was sued for the toasts, and all insinuation concerning three barrels of beer and mysterious cases which the outside gossip thought might contain wine are of course perfectly false...
...systematic work in historical and political science-at Columbia, at the University of Michigan, and at Johns Hopkins University. Harvard has practically no organized graduate department and although her lecture courses in the two departments of history and political economy cover to a considerable extent, the ground covered in direct instruction at the institutions we have named, yet this fact of the absence of regularly organized seminar work and of a school or department for specialized work in these branches, technically would exclude her from our list, as they exclude Yale and other colleges. The school of political science...
...schools at Columbia, at Ann Arbor and at Paris, it will be seen. is largely to give what may be called professional instruction. Johns Hopkins aims at original scientific investigation. Harvard holds to the old method of direct instruction, (with unimportant exceptions), in non-professional lines. There are no courses at Harvard, we believe, in Administrative Law, in the History of Political Theories, (slightly touched on in Phil 5 and Greek 8), or practically in Social Science. The instruction in Several other branches is also inferior in extent to that at these schools. The aim of Harvard in this matter...
...Team this winter. The men will be divided up into squads according to the events for which they wish to compete. Dr. Sargent and Mr. Lathrop will then assign exercises calculated to produce proficiency in the particular events. Each squad will have a leader and will be under the direct superintendence of Mr. Lathrop...