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...applicable to the Veterinary department; but not one is being applied. He spoke of the necessity of gathering funds to pursue the work. With regard to this veterinary school, the matter has never been written up in the papers, as it should have been done; no public interest has ever been awakened. Had the question been taken up as it should have been done, we know of what we speak in saying that a permanent fund of at least $100,000 could have been raised, and not with any great amount of labor...
...Thursday, Jan. 10, from 2 to 3.30 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. Is it advisable, on economic grounds, to foster the greatest possible immigration of foreigners? 2. Would it be advisable for the United States government to own and control all telegraphic lines? 3. Did any good ever come from forcing a man to act contrary to his convictions? 4. Has the constitution of the earth's atmosphere been subjected to considerable changes since the beginning of organic matter? 5. Compare George Eliot with George Sand...
...toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact no man should ever knit his brow as he thinks, or in any way evince effort as he works. The best brainwork is done easily; with a calm spirit, an equable temper and in a jaunty mood. All else is the toil of a weak or ill-developed brain straining to accomplish a task...
...importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last meeting of the faculty the subject was introduced and discussed, but, of course, no definite action was taken, nor is it probable that any decisive steps will be taken in a matter of such vital importance until the whole subject has been most carefully considered...
...famous Mr. So-and-So, the netted scholar and author, or Mr. Blank, the world-renowned actor, has been visiting the college. It cannot be said, however, that the role of posing as a phenomenon is in any way a trying one, or that the appearance of these visitors ever succeeds in disturbing very much the calm flow of college life. Occasionally those will arrive whom it becomes a pleasure to honor if the means lie in our power, as would have been the case with the distinguished English critic who so recently was in Cambridge, had the opportunity been...