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...first number of the long expected Harvard Monthly appeared yesterday. With it we feel justified in saying opens a new era in the student literary life of Harvard. Established with the express purpose of affording a medium for "the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought" of the college, it offers to solid literary work an incentive which has ever been wanting in this university. And it is especially fitting that the initial step in this direction should be made by the present senior class, a class which possesses so many men of marked literary ability...
Although many things may be said in favor of the recitation system of treating courses; that it gives students a chance to express themselves, to tell what they know and keeps them from being mere passive agents in the class room; yet are there not many advantages more desirable than these which the talk of the Professor only can give? It surely seems plausible that for three hours each week he can give more information to the men in any course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude...
...Philosophy in the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The money was received last commencement, and its net income is to be applied to the support, at either American or European Universities, of one or more American pupils who may have some capacity in physics, and "preferably such as shall express their determination to devote their lives to the advancement of theoretic science and original investigation in that department of learning...
...slang word or phrase in the conversation of a college student. We are, to be sure, condemned without stint by purists and over-sensative people for what they call the murdering of the English language. There are slang words which are weak, puerile, nonsensical; but there are others which express thoughts with a greater force and clearness than do any words in good repute. For example, what word is there which so exactly expresses the idea of hard, prolonged study as the common college word, "grinding"? But this expressive word is coming to be used so commonly and indiscriminatingly, being...
...then we should beat, and thus the championship becomes ours, what is the most fitting way in which to celebrate, and to express to the nine the gratification which the college feels towards it for its efforts in bringing to Cambridge the pennant which has so long graced the grounds of our old-time rivals? First of all, let every man attend the game and support the nine in a manner befitting its deserts, and when the game is finished and the victory ours, let there go up from old Holmes a shout which will show that Harvard "spirit...