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...taken by course I. and the latter will drop out. History III. will remain as before. Under this head a very important announcement is made that Professor Gurney will, in the years 1883-84, give a new course on the "Constitutional and Legal History of France to the end of the Fifteenth Century." This is to supplement his course in Roman History (III.) in alternate years...
Harvard and Dartmouth contested the second game for the college championship yesterday in the presence of 500 spectators. The game was poorly played on both sides, neither nine doing any good fielding. Dartmouth took the lead in the first inning and held it until the end. Nichols was injured in the first part of the game and Hall took his place behind the bat. For Harvard Olmsted did the best fielding, and Burt and Baker the best batting. Although the result of this game was far from what was expected, owing to their fine playing in games with professionals...
...think it is Thackeray who, in one of his most charming pictures of real life, says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...
...pleasant to see that the spirit of fierce rivalry that once prevailed among many of the colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system...
...Fernald, secretary of the faculty, to the parents, and its own explanation : "The facts are that he and others of his class, fancied that they had the right to dictate to their instructor what the length of their lessons should be, and the precise moment when their recitations must end, and when the limits, which they had arbitrarily assumed to be right, had been slightly exceeded. Your son and others concerted to absent themselves from the next recitation, and sent a letter to Prof. Smith, their instructor, informing him how he ought to conduct his recitation in these two respects...