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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...information concerning all courses, except those in the Medical School, address the Secretary of Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass.; for information concerning the courses in the Medical School, address the Secretary of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass...
...Arrant Knave." The play purports to be a mediaeval comedy, but it partakes more of the nature of melodrama than than of comedy, and melodrama of a conventional sort. The second act is real comedy and contains the brightest lines of the play; the other acts move heavily. Except in this second act Mr. Robson is afforded very little opportunity for effective work; it is impossible not to feel that in Chiqui the Knave he has found a part less congenial to him than some others he has assumed. But of course what work he has to do is done...
...said that first the terms "railroad" and "stocks" need to be carefully defined. A railroad may be considered a property of the nature of a "going concern" as the law books put it. All the paraphanalia of a railroad the locomotives, cars, etc.- are useless except when in motion. There are two general types of railroads-the eastern and the western, the old and the new. The eastern railroad was built for the purpose of carrying traffic already waiting to be moved, while the western railroad was built for the purpose of creating traffic. The differences in the purposes...
...dropped Latin as a prescribed study, and no longer requires it even for admission. It seems almost an absurdity to hold the graduating exercises in a language the students are no longer obliged to know, and which the audience certainly do not understand readily. There is no apparent reason except custom for retaining Latin in the Commencement exercises, and the change of the language of the quinquennial catalogue leads us to hope that Latin may be abolished there also, this year...
...said that the Glee club is run by a clique." As a matter of fact the Glee club is run by a majority of its members acting through its officers, except in the case of important matters, which are brought directly before the club. We fail to see how anybody can call this "clique" management...