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...colleges, as commonly conducted, a young man gets only a general training. He is fitted for no specific work, and oftentimes his energies are rather scattered than concentrated there. When he leaves he is ready for no practical employment-perhaps is not so well fitted for useful and profitable labor as he was when he began his college course. After he is graduated he must set himself to learning how to make a living-something he has not studied in college. [New York Sun.] According to the Sun it would be better for young men to devote themselves from early...
...Globe of yesterday contained an article on Harvard students which should be read by every one who feels any interest in Harvard. It will do much to correct the erroneous views of the bulk of the people in regard to Harvard students. People in general, and particularly Western people, have an idea that it is impossible for any man unless he has unlimited means to send his sons to Harvard. But "there is no doubt a moneyed atmosphere there, but there is underneath that a stratum of air which a visitor never breathes, which Boston people seldom know...
...turn either to the right or to the left, both doors leading to a students coat room 12 by 14, with accommodations for three hundred students. From the easterly coat room a stairway leads to a students' lavatory in the basement. From this room also the students' general room is entered, a nicely finished ball, 20 by 33, with a large bay window 19 feet wide and a carved fireplace. Around the walls of this room are a large number of lockers, each one 6 feet high by 18 inches, and having separate lock and key. This will give...
...Duke of Manchester, Lord Mandeville and Lord Elphinstone are guests of the governor-general at the government house in Ottawa...
...pleased to announce that next year a new German course will be opened to seniors. Hitherto, there have been very few desirable courses in this useful language, and in general it has met with neither the success nor popularity that has attended the French courses, which are, perhaps, the best-conducted courses in modern languages that the curriculum possesses. We hope, however, that the new course will be made attractive, and, what is of equal importance, valuable, which latter can be done only by placing the course in charge of a competent instructor...