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...GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR, who died last week at New York, was not a Harvard graduate, in spite of the fact that a great many papers have stated that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...GENERAL LISTER wishes to warn students against leaving valuables in the dressing-rooms of the Gymnasium. Three watches were found in one room a few days ago, and three pocket-books have been found on the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Shot. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...your history. Very well, sir, if you do write the thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well, and unless you become excessively pale by the end of the year, I shall feel obliged to condition you. Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE MORE GROWL. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of true scholarship among the students. The value of honours under the new plan will be much less than that of the present ones. The very value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken in a list embracing a large proportion of the class, - it will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts. Our Harvard honours will become much like those of a certain college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TOO MUCH HONOUR." | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...come to the middle class, - those who, without taking honours in a subject, or getting a part, have a fair general average. This class, say the inventors of the new scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TOO MUCH HONOUR." | 4/1/1879 | See Source »