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...essay states that a small boy who is obliged to learn the English language is subjected to "one of the most mind-stunting processes that has ever formed a part of the general education of any people." Then again it says, "the child who has difficulty in learning to spell may be expected to develop strong logical faculties...
...seniors are reading Milton's Areopogitica." This is interesting, and needs no comment. "Rescued from a watery grave! For particulars ask Smith." Here is something that plays vividly on the imagination. And too it imparts genealogical information. We learn with interest that a branch of the Smith family has been bold enough to go west and inflict its bane on western printers of college catalogues, who find the capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday...
...learn from the executive committee that the reading-room will be opened to-day. The room over the Co-operative store, which has been used already as a reading room, has been put into order. A long list of papers embracing representative dailies of Boston, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, California and other places; the New York weeklies; the London Times and Pall Mall Gazette, and all the leading college exchanges will be placed on file. The reading-room management has shown enterprise in their undertaking thus far. This enterprise is conspicuous in the determination to have the reading-room...
...management of Memorial Hall has planned, we learn, for a Thanksgiving dinner that will do justice to the day and the desires of those poor unfortunates who are deprived of a share in the family turkey. With the price of board at $4.00, it should become the policy of future directors to vary the prescribed courses at Memorial by inserting a Thanksgiving day elective, a course that will broaden and stimulate the inner man. We heartily recommend this course for all who spend the day in Cambridge, and trust that it will meet with their approval...
...pleased to learn that the sophomore crew intends to begin work in the gymnasium in a few days. As it is understood that several members of last year's-crew have been asked to try for regular and substitute positions on the 'varsity, there will probably be several vacant seats to fill for this year's boat. As there was more than enough good material to fill the boat last year, there can be little doubt of a successful sophomore crew, provided only the men who tried then will have the courage to come forward now. By this early beginning...