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...Senate of the University of Cambridge has passed a grace for the recognition of Cavendish College as a public hotel of the university. The institution which has thus been at length received into the university as an independent factor was originally begun in 1873 with three students, under the title of County College. The Duke of Devonshire, who is chancellor of the university, subsequently permitted the college to assume its present name. It was designed to enable students somewhat younger than ordinary undergraduates to pass through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train...
...Thus baggatiway or lacrosse is associated with history. The gentlemen who recently met to form a new lacrosse team for Harvard's honor, have no reason to be ashamed of a game which for many years has been the national sport of a people noted for endurance, agility and grace. The game was played on Cambridge common when Harvard was yet in its cradle; the old willows of Holmes re-echoed with the shouts of lacrosse players when Washington was but a boy. To such an antiquity as this the lacrosse player can well point with pride. As the only...
...picture of the quiet and peace of the ocean scene is a delicate piece of painting that strikes one strongly with its deep tinges of classic spirit, and makes one think of Homer. In truth, there is throughout this poem a healthiness of sentiment and grace of form that bring into only too unpleasant relief the affectation and crudity of some of the others...
...will challenge in good grace the educated world to prove more than one fundamental principle, the primary origin of all things, and also to prove any intrinsic value in subjects and objects, without harmonious inspiration in harmony with natural laws. I can give a genuine key to all the so-called inspiration in harmony with the Deity...
...grounding in the leading departments of human knowledge as the entire course of many of our Western colleges affords. The Review confronts us with such a mass of statistics in reply as well nigh to appall us. Nevertheless, we are willing to accept the statistics with a good grace, and yet not recede from the essential point of our thesis. We instanced Oberlin as an example of such a Western college; in this, perhaps, we do a partial wrong. On the plain ground of requirements and of subjects prescribed for freshman recitations, the statement could by no means justly apply...