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...Seniors.ALL Seniors who have not obtained sittings for their class photographs are requested to do so at once either by calling at 19 T., 26 Hollis, or 39 M., or by speaking to one of the Class Committee. In order that the pictures may be ready by the end of the College year, it is necessary that all negatives should be approved on or before the 14th of April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

DEAR HOSEA, - Here I am, in this Queen City of New England, and boarding in one of the most select parts of Boston (the South End), with a most affable lady, of means and refinement, whose name is Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY AT HARVARD. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...been realized. As far as can be judged by the returns up to the present time, the system has this year been used with much more license than it was last year or the year before, and there is now great danger that it will be suspended at the end of this year. The benefits arising from voluntary recitations have often enough been discussed; every one knows that, when used with the discretion which the average Senior is supposed to possess, the system has very great advantages; its abolition would be a retrograde step, and would be much lamented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

...case the next race be rowed there. They were most hospitably entertained by several prominent citizens, and taken in a tug over the proposed course. This course is perfectly straight for six miles, and is sheltered from the prevailing winds by a point of land at its lower end, on which the grand stand would be erected. From the stand the whole course could be seen; and, moreover, on one side of the river for the entire distance there is a carriage-road, and on the other a railroad on which a train of platform cars would be run, during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

...mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions of elegance and beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful image in return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHEMATICS MADE ATTRACTIVE. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »