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...while we are upon this subject, is it not rather strange that this custom is not more general among us? In all the German and French universities this usage has received the sanction of long observance. In many of our own instructions of learning it has become a matter of daily occurrence, notably at the medical schools of New York. Such manifestations of respect can hardly be otherwise than gratifying to the instructor who is honored by them...
...mention comes to some extent within the scope of one or more of the courses already given by this department; still in some of its more important phases, such as that concerned with the monopoly agitation, and railroad legislation, as well perhaps as the cognate question of the general relations of the railroads and the State, particularly in this country, the instruction as yet given is undeveloped and inadequate. That is to say we would urge the need of a special course modeled after the plan of Political Economy 6 or 8 for the discussion of this subject, not merely...
...students, or a large part of them, get both. The same reasoning that has been given concerning Washington's Birthday does not apply Thanksgiving. It has been argued that, because Harvard was born before ever Washington was, there is no occasion for Harvard's recognizing the great general's birthday. It is certainly a fact that Harvard doesn't recognize it in any outward way, Harvard students pass the day with their usual "Harvard Indifference" from all outside appearances. The flag on the Cambridge liberty pole and a few remarks in the newspapers are all that remind them that...
...this is the general aspect of affairs outside, in the public thoroughfares, how much worse is it in the privacy of men's rooms where the watchful eye of the public does not enter! What harrowing scenes could be witnessed between...
...library, however small, is not pleased to find that during his absence his landlady, in a sudden mania of spring-cleaning, has ruthlessly dragged out and dusted all his cherished volumes, and has replaced them perfectly regardless of size or shape, with that want of an eye to the general effect which is so characteristic of the average lodging-housekeeper...