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...general conversation followed, concerning the prose writings of Musset and his relations with George Sand, in which a large number of gentlemen took part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Francaise. | 1/12/1887 | See Source »

...general conversation, in which a large number of gentlemen took part, followed the reading, in regard to the prose writings of Musset and the relations of the poet with George Sand. The next meeting will be held-on January 26 in Sever 15; it is not yet announced who will be the next speaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Francaise. | 1/12/1887 | See Source »

...college congregation. The easy access which we have to New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia, where reside nearly all the celebrated clergy of our times, offers another and a strong inducement to the acceptance of this plan. But perhaps the strongest argument in its favor is the general approval it would receive from the students, while its practicability is proven by its present success at Harvard, and by its past history at Yale. In the first place the interest of the students must be aroused before any good can come. That one man alone cannot hold the student's attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

...Class-day revives a discussion which each year sees renewed. In the present case, while we cannot encourage so aggressive a method of reaching the desired end, we see an example of what without doubt is now causing more trouble than may appear. The day has been invariably marked ??? general courtesy upon the part of the underclassmen, and we are loth to think that in any case, tact and gentle-manly courtesy will not procure what is desired. The matter, however, in each case is one that is purely personal, and we therefore feel that any public notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1887 | See Source »

...their electives chosen for their whole college course, and when changes have been or are necessary, they are made judiciously, with the conception of the unity of the whole well in mind. The system of making an outline of one's college course soon after entering, is becoming more general every year, and it will not be long, we believe, before it becomes universal. When it does, the triumph of the elective system will be complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1887 | See Source »