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...Canadian backwoods girl, who could wield gun and paddle as skilfully as her hunter brother, with whom she lived in the wilderness. When I first saw her, she was speeding a canoe across the wild river that ran in front of their cabin. The apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated...
...Harvard Register for February was received yesterday. The second number is in all respects an improvement on the first. Nearly all the articles have a general interest even for students, and some are not without a special interest, as, for example, Dr Peabody's college customs fifty years ago, and President Eliot's treatment of the subject of scholarship, in which open scholarships are strongly opposed and the present system commended. Mr. Arthur Gilman gives the origin of the Annex, and Professor N. S. Shaler a short account of the Natural History Society, while Dr. D. A. Sargent replies...
COPIES of the first number of the present volume of the Crimson are much desired, and all who possess such copies, and do not care to preserve them, will confer a great favor by leaving them at Sever's, where twenty-five cents apiece will be paid for them...
...expect perfection in the management of the Gymnasium at first is contrary to experience, since that can be attained only by pointing out from time to time the conflicts between the rules and the students' wants. Closing the Gymnasium after Saturday noon seems to us a clear case of conflict. As the great majority of those who use the Gymnasium exercise either in the afternoon or evening, they are prevented from keeping a regular hour. Moreover, students devote to exercise the time that they can most conveniently spare from their work, and as there are no recitations in the afternoon...
...first place, it is doubtful if many instructors and students find unemployed afternoons in the busy time from Monday to Friday, - always supposing that the student is ambitious to hold an honorable position in his studies. Granted unlimited leisure, the need of a general holiday is still urgent; else what opportunities exist to witness base-ball and football games, and various other athletic sports? Absence from recitation would be the rule and not the exception on such occasions...