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Only be careful of whispers; alcoves, though shaded, I fear Sometimes hold more than two persons,-double, you know,- "ma" might hear...
...necessary that one should confine himself to one book, or class of books, in order to do justice to the subject, for this would be to cramp the mind and fit it for only one channel; though it were better to be a man of one book and know that well, than to wander through the various authors, gleaning here a little and there a little, but neglecting the great value of a thorough study of their works. A judicious selection of some of the really valuable works of standard authors will afford variety enough for all practical purposes...
EVERY student in the East knows that the third annual regatta of the R. A. A. C. takes place at Springfield, July 17. Harvard should be represented on that occasion by a " large and orderly crowd." Drunkenness and reckless betting will add not a whit to the pleasure to be derived from the race, while dishonor will certainly come to our college (which has enough to stand in that line already) from such a course. We have a good and steady crew, anxious for victory and faithful to their training; a captain in whom the whole University and its friends...
...regards the students at Harvard we hardly know which would be the most dangerous, - the tendency towards rationalistic ideas, so much feared by the gentleman to whom we have referred; or the absolute certainty of an endeavor to bring forward the heretical doctrine of transubstantiation, which is known to be believed by a recent candidate for the bishopric, whose influence the same gentleman thought to be so very necessary for the infidel students at Harvard! The ingenuity of special pleading in defence of "wide and generous views" loses vitality when the speaker is felt to be narrow-minded...
...statecraft, the College offers but a single elective in political economy. Without asking whether more ought not to be demanded, it is to be regretted this one is not better patronized. Probably there is nothing within its range which it is not incumbent on every educated citizen to know. Political science, it must be admitted, is a dry subject at first, and bristling with knotty problems for those who would go beneath the surface. But this does not in the least make against its importance or its claims...