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...portion of the second half year in prescribed Rhetoric is given up to lectures on standard authors. The list of authors is exceedingly good, and a study of the prescribed books would be of great interest. But we cannot but think that the list ought to be modified and changed from time to time. Moreover, the list as it stands is only a sample of what might be done in this direction. Many great writers whose works are not studied in the regular literary courses are not found in this list. If the list could be radically different for three...
These different methods of study need not be carried on entirely apart from one another. If there is an opportunity for younger students to make investigations, as in local history, they should be encouraged in this pursuit, for it cannot fail to give them a lifelong interest in the study of history. In confirmation of this view, Justin Winsor related his youthful experience in collecting information from town records, from the inscriptions on gravestones, and from the traditions of aged people of the neighborhood...
...chief business transacted was the revision of the playing rules. The following changes were settled upon, and, although Harvard cannot play in the association, it is not likely that the game will be given up here, so the rules will be of interest...
...years ago that the boating interest at Brown University occupied a prominent position among the other recognized sports. Lately, however, the record of the Brown crew has become somewhat obscure. In fact, the only branch of athletics to which the Rhode Island college has given strong support is base-ball. It seems, however, that an effort is to be made to restore rowing to its old position of prominence, and the following clipping from the Brunonian would seem to show that this effort bids fair to attain success...
Remembering the small score, 2 to 0, by which Harvard defeated Williams last spring, the following, from the Argo, will be of interest: "Williams may well be proud of the material which it will be possible to put into the base ball field with the opening of spring. Not only have we the men composing our last year's team, Safford '84 excepted, but there are several competitors who would do honor to any nine, and if fortune continues to smile, our record for '85 will surpass that of the past season...