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...GENERAL THOMAS SHERWIN will act as chief marshal, and James Russell Lowell will preside at the afternoon exercises on Commencement...
SOPHOMORES who wish to anticipate the history of the first half-year will prepare themselves in Freeman's General Sketch, Chaps. V. - XIV., inclusive...
...unless he has a "corner" on the subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception of it. And yet, I ask, is there evidence of a general influence of this kind supplanting the former parental authority? Are there no signs of the laxity of unrestraint, with no stronger guide than the undeveloped character which youth itself supplies unaided...
...freely admitted. Investigation will show that a large part of the students pursue almost exclusively literary studies, leaving science and natural history to be learned at haphazard. All will admit the value of these studies in developing sides of our character and tastes which History, Philosophy, Mathematics, or the general study of literature necessarily fails to do. Acknowledging the value of Chemistry, Botany, and Geology, many a man of a literary penchant is deterred from electing them from fear of their taking up too much time; and thus on graduating from college is a perfect ignoramus in natural branches. This...
Instruction in these summer courses is given as follows: I. General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis; II. Quantitative Chemical Analysis; III. Determinative Mineralogy and Crystallography; IV. Phaenogamic Botany; V. Cryptogamic Botany; VI. Geology. For each of these the fee is $25, except VI., which, conducted with such success last year, is too well known to need any comment. Each course is to last six weeks; thus leaving six weeks to the student for a vacation of pure idleness, if he prefers. The importance of these courses cannot be overestimated, while their cheapness, considering their value, will form an attraction to many...