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...pages devoted to Harvard College, in the article on Cambridge, in the "History of Middlesex County," by S. A. Drake, we learn, among other things, that "in 1786 a college uniform was prescribed for the students with particulars of form and color and a system of distinctions for classes by means of 'frogs' on the cuffs and around the button-holes. The wearing of this uniform was compulsory, and the regulation continued in force, without modifications, for a number of years." Some of the college rules may be of interest to undergraduates. For example: "No freshman shall wear...
...learn from the News Letter, of Iowa College, that "Miss King of Cambridge is preparing to publish soon in a little volume the poetical tributes to the late President Garfield...
...York Mail and Express devotes some of its valuable space to "College Chips," from which we learn that belligerent college students seem to be unpleasantly numerous just now; that students of the University of Pennsylvania are very important young men; that Yale boys should have what they want; that Harvard's Greek play netted a handsome profit; that the Harvard students who endeavored to disturb Oscar Wilde at his lecture in Boston, now realize that their action was not very creditable; that the college boat races next summer promise to be more exciting than ever, but that college presidents...
...these selections represent more truly the best thought and highest flights in French literature by giving us passages from those leading poets and dramatists who have given the world of French belles-lettres its greatest glory and finest expression. This done, the student may then feel that what he learns is of some worth and use to him, instead of dry matter which he hastens to forget after examination. Attention may also be called to the lack of composition work in French. Although the catalogue promises this as included in the courses, little or nothing is done to have...
...such a course of lectures would make the students more practical and independent in after life than they would become under the "depressing routine" they are now following. This proposition certainly sounds well and, no doubt, many students would be benefitted by its acceptance, gaining much practical knowledge and learning something of the present political state of other countries besides their own. Many would also learn about the affairs of their own country, in this way, who, although excellent classical scholars, if questioned now on this subject, would show themselves sadly deficient. We should like to see the proposition...