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...attention of all Freshmen who know German is called to the existence of a society, Der Verein, for the purpose of keeping up the knowledge of the language, and also affording opportunity for pleasant intercourse with upper-class men. All who wish to join will send their names and address to 391 Harvard St. or 19 Holworthy...
...other side, Buchner and the materialists seem not to have progressed beyond the Chinese, of three thousand years before Christ, who recognized in the universe two elements, one active, one inert, - force and matter; but perhaps came nearer the truth than our German contemporaries in recognizing these elements as divine intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist...
...advanced, and that rare ability of gathering the wheat from the chaff be greatly increased? With the present requirements this is impossible; preparation is required on the notes given only in lectures and textbooks. And this preparation is at the expense of laborious grinding. One of the famous German Etymologists will lecture hours on the subject under consideration, but if questioned on extraneous matter, he is altogether at a loss till he has his notes. There is no doubt that the training of memory is a good thing, but it should not be cultivated to the exclusion of other faculties...
...Have 1 German; 6 Latin assumes...
...welcomes German 2, 3; and Math...