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...question: "How comes it that we have so few men in Oxford who are able to lead, who attract students to the university by their reputation, and send them from the university inspired with new motives and illumined with new light?" This question in reference to Harvard cannot fail to suggest many thoughts on the various features of university life at Harvard. At first sight a Harvard student will indignantly exclaim that the question does not apply to Harvard; that we have plenty of men here who do lead and who do attract students by their reputation; who do inspire...
...each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...
...study of philosophy, nevertheless, proved most interesting to those who had not the advantage of a large acquaintance with the subject. The lecturer possessed the happy faculty of putting his thoughts in a popular form while he treated the subject in a profound manner. Such lectures as this cannot fail to increase the interest taken in the study of philosophy by the students at large...
...wish to row a fair and gentlemanly race, which the diplomatic correspondence of the last two months seems to have endeavored to conceal, at once became evident when the representatives of the colleges met. The evident fairness of the settlement of the question about the method of starting cannot fail to commend it to every one. To start with the sterns of the shells even and to judge by the bows at the finish, would simply make our course about five feet shorter than Harvard's - we do not wonder that they objected. - [Record...
...advance on the price of tickets last year, when an excuse was made of heavy expenses incurred for repairing the track on Jarvis field and for fitting up the meeting-room in the gymnasium. But now that there is a handsome balance in the treasury of the association, we fail to see why the former money-making scheme should be persisted in and improved upon. This proceeding is at the best somewhat questionable, and we hope that the higher price has not been determined upon simply because the managers think they can get it. They should remember with what disfavor...