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...given in history, and it would be difficult to find a more useful one. Such a course would enable one not only to read to the best advantage the contemporary literature of our own country, but also would give one a firmer hold on, and a stronger interest in, the literature of other countries. Besides, it is a knowledge we must gain before we can hope for the reputation of being liberally educated, and there will be no future time when we can expect such aids in the acquirement of this knowledge as might be ours at present...
THANKS to the courtesy of the Secretary, the Fifty-First Annual Report of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College is before us, containing 150 pages of information of more or less interest to the undergraduate world...
...monotonous as that of most of our compatriots will almost infallibly wear the same coat from morning till night, and talk nothing but shop. I have lately been reminded of this fact, in a rather disagreeable way, by meeting a certain number of college men. As I felt some interest in what was going on in Cambridge, I tried to talk with them upon the subject; and I found them, without exception, to be as one-sided as business men of fifty years' standing. Brown, who was something of an athlete, could tell me a little about the nine...
...half a dozen years on the academical examining committee appointed by the Harvard Overseers, and have been assigned, during several of these years, to the sub-committee on Greek. I confidently assert that Harvard College produces better Greek scholars than it produced thirty years ago. That the general interest in Greek is less cannot be doubted; but the repeated evidence of the aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last few years, and partly...
...dozen as an allowance for those who will pass degree-less from these halls, 180 will graduate; 180 X 3 1/2 minutes = 10 1/2 hours, which is rather a long time for men to sit listening to "parts," - and men, too, who have generally been thought to be somewhat interested in the dinner which occurs on that day. For their own interest the "tyrants and oppressors" ought to reconsider their action...