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...papers an analytical knowledge of certain of Shakespeare's plays, including the disgusting one, "Othello." The rules also required, that the boy entering should have a knowledge of the novel called "The Mill on the Floss." Appreciating the propriety of keeping such literary stuff out of a boy's head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature...
...clock, but did not commence until 2.40. There was no occasion for this unreasonable delay, and surely it should not have been allowed when darkness sets in at so early an hour. The Harvard men were heavier and stronger than their opponents, but showed a lamentable weakness of head or management, failing to play well together or support one another effectively. Individually they played very well, but there was much inexperience and ignorance of the rules of the game apparent. The ball was quite slippery and hard to handle, which may explain the muffing of some of the tends...
...present day Vienna and Berlin are the centres where our young men crowd for instruction. These must sooner or later yield their precedence and pass the torch they hold to other hands. Where shall it next flame at the head of the long procession? Shall it find its old place on the shores of the Gulf of Salerno, or shall it mingle its rays with the northern aurora up among the fields of Norway, or shall it be borne across the Atlantic and reach the banks of the Charles, where Agassiz and Wyman have taught, where Hagen still teaches, glowing...
Holding his dizzy head...
...London Daily News understands that one of the masters of Eaton has been required by the head master to suppress his book entitled "Notes of a Tour in Ireland," on pain of dismissal from his position...