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Recitatione Latina hominorum viridum. Prof. - "Well, Mr. B., explain that reference in the next line. What do you know about Euterpe?" H. V. - "Nothing, sir, further than that he was a celebrated musician!" - [Clamose snickerunt omnes...
...exchange wants to know "whether our colleges turn out gentlemen." Certainly not; the gentlemen are allowed to go on and graduate. - [Ex.] We print the above and think it should be admired on account of its antiquity. Had Oscar read the college papers he would have recognized in this a veritable ruin...
...lions of Washington society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...practised writing exercises fails to recognize the advantage gained in being able to express one's self in French. We are encouraged to try to talk, and "advised" (i. e. obliged,) to write our examinations in French. In this many men experience great difficulty, as they do not know how to express themselves, having paid almost entire attention to simple translation, which seems to be the chief end of our French and German courses at Harvard...
...same - spending, say, in the course of their university career, successive terms in New England, the Middle States, the sunny South, the great Northwest and on the Pacific coast. The broadening influence of such a course upon the young American of the future would be inestimable. He would really know his country, and be an American in the highest and truest sense...