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...other studies, but his purpose was never to fail. His class was one in which there was a large amount of ambition and an intense struggle for rank in scholarship. In this class Longfellow stood justly among the first. At commencement he was assigned one of the three English orations; the valedictory, being the highest in rank, was received by his older and able scholarly classmate, Little. Gorham Deane, a young man of the most remarkable metaphysical powers I have ever known, for one of his age, died before the commencement. I have recently seen a letter from President Allen...
...women. Miss Magill thinks that for post-graduate study in this country, Michigan University is to be preferred for historical and political science, Cornell and the Institute of Technology for the natural sciences, and Harvard annex for the classics and mathematics. In England, Oxford is to be recommended for English literature and philology, Cambridge is perhaps to be preferred to all other places for mathematics and classics, and both Cambridge and London give excellent opportunities in natural science...
...Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics; Prof. Willard Fiske, from his two years' travels abroad; and Prof. J. Henry Comstock from the position of entomologist to the U. S. government. Lectures have been delivered before the students by Professors E. A. Freeman, Chas. Kendall Adams, non-resident Professor of English Constitutional History; Henry C. Adams, non-resident Professor of Political Economy; Herbert Tuttle, non-resident Professor of International Law, and Prof. Ely of Johns Hopkins...
...habit of extemporaneous speaking. We suggest that those who are now making up their elective for next year consider the Harvard Union debates as among the electives. Would not one evening a fortnight be well spent by those who hereafter intend to make any figure in public life? As English 6 will not be given next year, the present juniors must turn to the Harvard Union if they wish practice in debate during their last year. Cannot the Union be made next year a society that more nearly represents Harvard than it has done in the past? Many smaller colleges...
...English government will use all its force against the secret societies of Ireland...