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...formation of a Harvard Canoe Club is excellent, if the formation of such a club would result in advancing the interests of canoeing at Harvard; but if it were to be formed merely to the end of adding another form of amateur contests to our already overstocked list, its advisability seems to me extremely doubtful. Canoeing-legitimate canoeing-is one of the most delightful sports in the world, and this fact is known full well to its votaries; but if the recent "boom" in canoeing interests, observable throughout the amateur sporting world, is to have its final outcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1882 | See Source »

...drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras. It is not a question of what a man can do but what is most convenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1882 | See Source »

...breadth and liberality of interpretation which this permitted, its catholicity limiting the school to three classes, the Mystics, the Agnostics and the Dyspeptics. I wondered, too, if Mrs. Butterfield had persuaded Mr. Butterfield to send "our dear Benjamin" to Harvard on the ground that an undergraduate, under the list of expenses marked "least," could live on $484, but that a divinity student could live on $238, not knowing that this calculation was made years ago, when the study of physiological physchology was in its infancy and the spirituality of divinity students was at its maximum point. I wondered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 3/27/1882 | See Source »

Corrected list of chapters and sections from Couttwell and Schmidz for the Freshman Examination in Classical (Greek and Latin) Lectures. - The questions on Wednesday's paper will cover: 1. All that was given in the 20 lectures. 2. Jebb's Primer of Greek Literature, pp. 1 - 136, with alternative questions on the books suggested for outside reading. 3. Either - A: Couttwell's History of Roman Literature, Book I., cc I. - IV., VII., IX., pp. 37 - 98, and X.; Book 2, Part 1, cc I. - IV., V., pp. 319 - 330, Part 2, cc II., III., V.; Book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 3/25/1882 | See Source »

...time in the Calendar. A brief synopsis of the course may not be uninteresting here. Two years of work in the literary department of this university, or one of equal standing, is required for entrance. The course of study occupies three years, and may be selected from the following list of studies: Seventeen courses in history, two courses in political economy, one course in international law, one course in sanitary science, one course in social science, one course in forestry. These courses vary in length from twice a week for one semester upwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1882 | See Source »

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