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...distinctly understood that while we mention these facts because they are matters of importance to our University, we would also have it understood that we know they arise from causes at present unavoidable. Some day we hope it will be possible to pursue a different, and what we cannot help calling, a more liberal-minded plan...
...Pamphlet for next year, probably none will be more acceptable than the one on German literature. The fact that Germany until our time has been divided into numerous states and principalities makes it difficult for the student to get a connected idea of its history and literature; and any help in this direction is to be welcomed. As the course is to be one hour, and to consist of lectures, a large number will undoubtedly elect it. To those students who have already taken several courses in German, it will be valuable as a kind of review; and to those...
...inner life of a poet is an enigma to the ordinary mortal. He is regarded as a curious being who rarely descends to the commonplace things of earth, and when he does so, his visits are supposed to be of short duration. My own experiences on this subject may help to change this opinion in a slight degree...
...could not help pitying the poor Chinaman, who presented a most woful appearance. His sad story is soon told. True to the instinct of a foreigner, he had made a pun in his Fine Arts Lecture. The fellows endeavored to show their appreciation by a thundering wooding-up and yells of applause. This seeming derision was too much for the hot blood of the Eastern Despot, - he sailed for the rabble. . . . The pieces of pigtail and silk trousers which hang as trophies in rooms of Seniors and Juniors might suggest his appearance as he came on the field...
...change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example, need help then as much as at any previous time; and proctorships are almost the only resource, scholarships in the Law School being small and few. If any class is to be excluded from proctorships, it seems to us that it should be tutors, assistant-professors, and professors, who are better able...