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...freshman recently was heard to ask if, in case of the tug-of-war rope's breaking, the team which held the longest section would be declared the winner, as is the custom in breaking a "wishbone...
...enterprise of the Harvard Union in inviting President Eliot to address the students, under its auspices, in Sanders Theatre, is most commendable. We have heard very much favorable comment among undergraduates in regard to this action of the Union, and the opportunity of hearing our President is looked forward to with great expectancy. The duties of the executive head of this university are so manifold that he could not be expected to conduct courses in some branch of learning, as is the custom with the presidents of almost all other American colleges, but that he has not hitherto taken occasion...
...hills. But C., ah C.! He heard the summons of the blast, and cooly sauntering into the library, took from the mathematical alcove an armful of books, and loaded down with treatises on calculus, determinants, quarternions, arbitrary functions and the theory of the potential, a very Archimedes, with formulas enough to reconstruct a universe,- stalked fearlessly in the wake of the white robed angel! He remembers no more; but this bare glimpse of the products of his busy brain will serve to show something of the possibilities that lurk within it. The very evening of the day on which this...
...curiosities from foreign lands lay scattered with studied carelessness among the books. The library was all that a man of letters could desire. I rubbed my eyes that I might be sure that I was not asleep. "O, that this were mine!" I whispered to myself. My companion heard. "And so are these your highest dreams of life?" he asked. "Listen, my friend," he continued. "He who dwells here is one of a class of men who regard themselves as forming the highest society in the land. But this man cares more for that old Aldine or that rare Plotinus...
...History with 454; Philosophy, 357; Political Economy, 324; Greek, 229; Latin, 203; English and German, 194 each; French, 189; Fine Arts, 181; Chemistry, 174. We see by this that some of the hardest courses are elected by the greatest number of men, thus showing the falsity of the often-heard statement that, under an elective system, "soft" courses are usually chosen. It is curious to note that Greek and Latin are more popular than either English, French or German. And yet we are told that the elective system has killed the classics...