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...Kimball should not forget his responsible position as the head of the foot ball interest, and publicly express private opinions utterly at variance with the sentiments of a large body of Harvard students...
Since 1870, then, the music department has existed much as we now have it, with Professor Paine at the head, and offering courses in the history and theory of music, from simple harmony up to advanced forms of composition, as a contribution towards a liberal education, on an equal basis with all the other courses in college. There are now no less than ninety-five men taking the six courses on this basis. And here is the keynote of the whole system. The aim is not to make finished composers, or in any way to rival the great music schools...
...entered the next room, and here something met our gaze which very much puzzled us. It was a large cylindrical tin box, over which hung, suspended by an iron rod connected with the shaft over head, a huge steel blade. We gazed upon it with horror; it carried us back to the days of the French Revolution and the guillotine. We wondered if it might not be an instrument which in the middle ages had been used connected in some way with the Spanish Inquisition. At this point we were informed by our guide, who noticed our perplexity that this...
...students who are led by this compulsory system to avoid religious services through their whole lives after graduation. They are represented by the graduate who declared that in four years he had heard enough prayers and sermons to last a lifetime, and that he would never again put his head inside a church. Would it not be better to incline such students toward religious observances by example and persuasion than to repel them by compulsion...
...then crawling beneath the bedclothes to shift his plates. The landlady whose suspicion had been roused by the strange actions and apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during this operation, and seeing two legs sticking out of the bed where the head ought to be. seized a piece of rope and calling for help, tied the unlucky man securely to the bed by winding the rope around both. Ever after this there has been a doubt in the landlady's mind about the sanity of my friend, and in his, about the strength of her mind...