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...Growth." This medal is given under the auspices of the Finance Club, and any present undergraduate may contest for it. A candidate may present an essay on any economic subject other than here mentioned, provided it be approved by the committee of award. The essays must not exceed in length the amount of 25 pages of the North American Review, and must be handed in by November 1. The judges are Professor Charles F. Dunbar, Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, and Mr. Hamilton A. Hill...
...conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before...
...last two themes any member of the junior class may substitute a single piece of argumentative writing of not less than twelve pages in length, to comprise both Exposition and Persuasion. This double theme will be due on Thursday, March 12th...
...this connection we should like to offer a suggestion as to the number of men who shall represent the different classes in the future conferences, if such there be. It is that the number from each class shall not be the same, but graded according to the length of time which the classes have been in college, that the senior class have the largest delegation, the junior next, and so on, down through the sophomores to the freshmen, who shall have the smallest. It seems manifestly unfair that the seniors with all their experience in college, should not be able...
This remarkable book is published anonymously, and is supposed to relate the experience of an individual who lives entirely in a land of two dimensions, i. e. to every individual there is only length and breadth, no height. The form of the author is supposed to be that of a square. In the course of his experiences, he meets with a land of one dimension,- viz.- line land,- and later on he is introduced to a land of three dimensions, spaceland; though at first he could not be convinced, when told by a sphere, that space possessed more dimensions than...