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...PROFESSOR MARSH has received from the Geological Society of London a medal, known as the Bigsby medal, accompanied by a letter speaking in flattering terms of his recent discoveries among the fossils...
Members of athletic or rowing associations, unless known to the Club, will be required to furnish a certificate of membership, and any person not a member of a recognized club must be properly introduced by some well-known person who can vouch for his being an amateur...
...Advocate says that it would be better to have the pages of the Lampoon blank than to have these pictures on them. So far from agreeing to this, I think that the Editors of the Lampoon have made a very happy hit in giving the features of men known to us all, and putting beneath them lines which indicate the estimation in which they are held by those whom they instruct. Ten or twenty years from now they will be of great value, and if they are ever published, as the verses from the Advocate have been published...
Though the priggish pronunciation "Inquiry" is often heard, I have never known justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district...
...attend recitations while the bells were tolling for the death of one of the most efficient servants the cause of Education ever had. The clash of our college bell ringing for recitations with the bells on the neighboring steeples jarred on the nerves of every student who had ever known the deceased. Giving their sanction to such inhumanity, how can our Faculty complain if young men today lack the spirit of courtesy, patriotism, and nobleness that our forefathers...