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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...early breakfast; but he must remember that we, unlike him, have been brought up under those strictly Puritan influences which frown down late rising in holy horror. The change is certainly desired by a large majority of those students who board at Memorial. Mr. Growler, if not satisfied, will find the "Holly Tree" open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...placed among the Graduate courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORAL DISCUSSION. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...desire to hear Mr. Childs's lectures had been publicly expressed. We do not think that any modesty on our part should keep us from expressing our wishes in the matter, and we are sure that Mr. Childs, whether he consents or refuses, will not, at any rate, find fault with us for our boldness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...aware that the Boston University Beacon comes from three miles nearer the centre of civilzation than we, but might we be permitted to ask whether Apollonem is a better form for the accusative of Apollo than the usual Apollinem? The poet, among nearly three columns of whose effusions we find this new Latin word, also publishes a poem the first line of which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...Burlington Hawkeye, the Vindex is not a success; as a school paper, it is - not a failure. The Critic is more ambitious than the first two papers; it includes Harper's Monthly among its exchanges, and is not afraid to give its opinion of college contemporaries. Here too we find lengthy mention of the Pope's death, and there is a long article on the character of Hamlet, which we have not read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

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