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...storm which we predicted has broken forth over the announced changes in the admission requirements. One newspaper warns the exultant anti-classicists that Harvard, instead of setting the lead, may be held up as an example of what a college should not be. Another newspaper, with sinister mysteriousness, gives out the hint that Harvard has thrown overboard, along with prescribed Greek, more than she suspects. Still another talks gloomily about the "combined forces of moneyed considerations and a false liberalism" "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning," and indicates quite (?) that Harvard "has sold its (?) right for a mess of pottage...
...faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling eye of day; faces mutilated into every shape into which the human countenance can be bruised or flattened or slashed or puffed or putrified,-such is the sight which greets the visitor upon his entrance to the Paris Morgue: for immediately in front of the entrance...
...asking for immediate aid. According to the circular the amount owed is about $1200, and unless $200 is subscribed before the 1st of March, the crew will be obliged to disband. This statement has occasioned much surprise among most of the members of the class, and has called forth some rather unfavorable opinions on the management of the crew. Few men realize how expensive a crew is; especially a freshman crew for whom a barge and a shell must be bought, and their expenses at New London paid, in addition to the usual expenses of the ordinary class crew...
...this, what Professor Bocher is to the French department. At present there are in German two instructors, and two assistant professors, but no full professor, and we think that it is due to this more than anything else, that the department has been so conducted as to call forth such severe criticism as it does from the students who are trying to acquire some knowledge of this language...
...many members would not pay, could not then be said to belong, and ceasing to purchase, would cripple the effectiveness of the society. This refusal to pay would leave the amount to be received very indefinite and hard to calculate. Other arguments, some of which have already been set forth in this paper, less important, perhaps, but strong enough in toto to easily convince the meeting that an assessment would be inexpedient...