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...need is very urgent, for exploration in this country is being carried on so rapidly that soon all the best specimens of aboriginal civilization will have been collected; and at present our museum has no funds whatever for making collections. Theodore Lyman, J. C. Phillips and Stephen Salisbury head the list with $500 each...
...editorial on "Uncivilized Collegiates." We quote the following as a sample of the Post editor's views on the subject: "In the more high-toned current items of crime the college student occupies a conspicuous place, and there are many pranks of his that deserve to come under this head which are called by a milder name, because a college student is supposed to be incapable of crime - he merely breaks the laws." Again he says that a tendency to lawlessness has been observed at Harvard, Yale, etc., within a very recent period. We should be pleased to know...
...Pope Manufacturing Company's new "Expert" is made entirely of steel, with a moderately low head and hollow forks. The adjustments to the ball bearings are on the inside, which renders the spread much less than usual...
...both cases, by narrow margins, the marks are given out, and perhaps one finds another man has beaten him by one or one and one-half per cent. Thus it runs down in the rank of scholarship, and hardly any ambition satisfied except that of the man at the head. The honor is usually a very empty one, a mere question of marks and marks. Thus, in many cases, the principal outcome is an extreme regret and disappointment at not having done just a little better. Turning to the "popular side" of the rank list, the same sentiment will apply...
...several other Boston dignitaries, he found that Mr. Pratt was actually staying at the Vendome - his room was up pretty high, to be sure, but for all that he was at the Vendome. After two or three timid knocks the door was partly opened, and Dan'l's classic head appeared, with the question if he'd come to buy a photograph. The reporter said that such was not his purpose, but he would like to get Mr. Pratt's opinions on the topics of the day for the HARVARD HERALD. Dan'l, after some hesitation, admitted him, saying that...