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...direction, and Yale took the matter under consideration, but nothing was done. Cornell also agitated the matter, and the result at the present time is a course of lectures by a well known New York journalist. A thorough familiarity with the party-history of the country, and with the general history of the country and of the world, together with a knowledge of Common, Constitutional, International Law, Political Economy, Logic, Principles of Criticism, English Literature, and the French and German languages, are given by Whitelaw Reid as the indispensable acquirements of a journalist. While, of course, any student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/13/1885 | See Source »

...fall of 1883 a new system of college government was presented to the Bowdoin students for ratification, the general scope of which is indicated by the following clause from Article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jury System at Bowdoin. | 4/11/1885 | See Source »

...previous readings, with the tamer and less exacting productions of Dickens and Longfellow. In the reading last night Mr. Jones seemed to feel greater sympathy for some of his characters than for others. The uneveness, however, if it existed, was but slight, and did not detract from the general good impression derived from the recital. Mr. Jones' series of readings has been an event in the aunals of the college. Its importance is to be shown by the good results it will bring about in furthering the study of dramatic art and the art of expression. It has been shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Jones Reading. | 4/11/1885 | See Source »

...support the club. The admission fee to the club is only three dollars, and the member has the satisfaction of knowing that he personally is going to derive pleasure from his contribution, and that his money is not going to an organization in which he has only a general interest, as is the case with subscriptions to the college teams. Last year the club took several very pleasant runs, even going on one occasion as far as Newburyport. This spring there will be several runs by the club, and possibly one or two long ones, where the riders will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/10/1885 | See Source »

...general effect produced by the book is thoroughly pleasing, and the story will easily take a foremost place among the best romances of late years. We believe that "The Duchess Amelia" places Mr. Wendell in the front rank of our younger authors. No work that has come before our notice of late has given more promise, or shown more strength than this latest addition to American fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Duchess Emilia. | 4/10/1885 | See Source »