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...following is an extract from an open letter by Professor Schmoller, one of the most influential in the law faculty of the University of Berlin. Its publication has called forth a storm of controversy in the German newspapers. The fact that German students frequently spend the first half of their university course in idleness is not denied, even by those who oppose the views of the learned professor, and the chief argument of defence is that these years of idleness make up the only season of romance in the otherwise unbroken life of examinations and position-hunting to which German...
...showed us thousands of jars of preserved reptiles and fishes from which he had to select the best specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause of science, to be rudely dragged forth, condemned as "common" and haled to the offal-dock. Alcohol has been the ruin of nearly every reptile that ever indulged in it, as well as of nearly every man; though Professor Garman assured us that in a practically air-tight jar it did not require to be changed more than once...
...students are recruited. There are many electiues here, but life is not one of them; we must live. Therefore let us live that largest life possible, the life of a true, christian gentleman. We are the leaders of the American community; we must be it when we go forth from here. For this we must have life, and let us get it here at its fountain. We, as preachers here, have for our object to become better acquainted with you, to know you as man knows man, and to offer you what alone makes the difference in our feelings...
...another column we publish an account of Yale's prospects in athletics for the coming year, which certainly should interest Harvard men. Yale will undoubtedly put forth her best efforts to follow up the advantage gained by her victories of last spring, and she begins her new year under peculiarly favorable circumstances. Two of her best men have entered the law and post-graduate departments respectively, and will probably resume their old positions on the crew and nine. The newly elected captains of the last named organizations are men of exceptional ability, whose claim to the respect and good-will...
...boating men says that in the race between the 'varsity and freshmen eights the other afternoon, the 'varsity men by no means put forth their best efforts, but merely endeavored to push the freshmen as fast as possible in order to see just what they were capable of doing. The freshmen demonstrated on this occasion that they were capable of pulling a fast race and making a fine spurt when called upon to do so. The freshmen will not row in a new boat at New London, as they have all along expected. Waters, who was to make their boat...