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...that as much time shall be spent on forensics as on an average half course. If, however, the number of topics required were reduced to about three, it seems to me that the benefit to be derived from the course would be materially increased, while the temptation to prepare either four or five subjects and take one's chances in the examination would be done away with. I propose, therefore, that a petition for the reduction of the number of subjects required be drawn up and placed where all Seniors and Juniors can sign it. I have been assured that...
...said that the drum corps will wear either night caps or cooks' white caps...
...taste and education of its owner, but in 1764 a large fire burnt all these volumes but one, which fortunately happened to be in the hands of some outside party. That John Harvard was an English Puritan minister is uncertain, as there is no proof of his being ordained, either on this side or on the other, but he is generally sup posed to be a non-conformed clergyman. Nearly 100 scholars from Oxford and Cambridge came over about the same time with him to New England, 70 of whom were from Cambridge and about a score of these from...
...first each freshman class used, on entering, to studiously keep away from the gymnasium, either from bashfulness or because the men failed to appreciate its advantages, but this order of things has now become changed, as is shown by a glance at the apparatus on any afternoon. In fact, the larger amount of exercise seems to be done by the two lower classes. This is a most gratifying result, and the more so because there is no system of compulsory gymnastics in vogue among us, as is the case at many other colleges. With the perfect appliances and convenient arrangements...
...simple mode of preventing ink from damaging metallic pens, is to throw either into the inkstand or the bottle in which the ink is kept, a few nails, broken bits of steel pens (not varnished) or any other pieces of iron not rusted. The corrosive action of the acid contained in the ink is expended on the iron introduced...