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...course, in whatever matter the examination paper is prepared, we all know the subjects well enough to meet the demands upon our intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...loyalty of college graduates towards their alma mater. There is no greater pleasure, perhaps, to the graduate of middle life, engrossed in the cares of business or professional life than these annual dinners, such as are now celebrated throughout New England. It is a noteworthy sign of the great interest taken in higher education that so many eminent men should attend these gatherings, and should discuss so earnestly and thoroughly the great questions of the day in collegiate methods of instruction. While a dinner of Harvard alumni would be an impossibility in the vicinity of Boston, as no hotel would...
...valuable library presented to Cornell by ex-President White contains some rare and costly books. The following clipping may interest our readers...
...Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa and Paracelsus and their extravagant compeers. Whatever pertains to the superstition of science seems to have had for Mr. White an especial interest...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I have followed with the liveliest interest the discussion now in progress in your columns as to the establishment of a university club, in the hope (which seems less and less attainable as the discussion goes on) that some of its advocates or opponents will kindly define that which they are advocating or condemning. "Y." gives reason against the formation of such a club; "W." reasons for such action; but neither tells us anything more than that the club would or would not accomplish one purpose - the bringing together of professors and students. Both write...