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...knows few upper classmen from whom to get information about the different courses. Take, for example, the following from the Elective Pamphlet:* "NATURAL HISTORY 4. Geology. Three times a week. Professor SHALER. Course 4 can be taken twice a week, omitting the field work, if notice to that effect is given in advance." By the use of the dictionary, one gets a definition of geology; but that does not give a very clear idea of what the course is about. The next thing that needs further explanation is, Who conducts the course? It says, in the pamphlet, Professor Shaler...
...Turkey rug. I felt like a fool; but the class looked satisfied and that was the main point. They were a curious collection of ladies, of various ages, from seventeen up to - well, I won't guess the age of the oldest. All but one wore glasses, and the effect of the combined glare of twelve pairs of glasses can better be imagined than described! One or two belonged to the Saturday morning club, and one to the Saturday evening, - the latter being, in my opinion, preferable to the former. Two of them were very pretty; another beautifully ugly, like...
...statement that he was a???culted. The society has obtained all that could be expected from the Police Commissioners; but it will not let the matter rest here, but will carry the case before a higher court, and it is to be hoped that this will have the effect of checking the numerous outrageous misrepresentations of Harvard which appear in the Boston press. The sympathy of the College is entirely with the society, and every one wishes them success...
...that only amateurs can compete, and the absence of the professional element in base ball heretofore should have warned these men that, by becoming members of a professional club, they ceased to be amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts being known to the Brown men previously to their engagement, refusing to accept their explanation would not have been in the "nature of an ex post facto law." Moreover, ex post facto laws relate only to criminal cases, and therefore can have no application to this...
...Lake George Rowing Association sent a communication to the H. U. B. C. to the effect that if the H. U. B. C. would invite the Oxford and the Cambridge Crews to America, they would entertain them...