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...practical value that we desire an elective in law, though the consideration of its theoretical value may overcome the objections of those who think that, in college, time should not be taken from studies which conduce to general culture, and devoted to professional studies. The students who intend to make the law their profession form a large portion of every class, and to these an elective in law would of course be very acceptable; while even to those who intend to follow mercantile pursuits an elementary knowledge of law would be of great, value...
Both the principle laid down at the Alumni dinner in 1874 and the policy of the College ever since make it incumbent on Harvard to honor her graduates who fell in the Southern armies (and Mr. Sibley informs me there are many such) in the same manner as she has those who fell in the Northern armies...
...comrade could not converse with them. They took us to the library, where there was nothing particular. We looked over it a little. They presented us with a glass of wine. This is all we ascertained there. The minister of the place goes there morning and evening to make prayer, and has charge over them. The students have tutors or masters. Our visit was soon over...
...monopolize the places in the club boats; but the men who rowed on the Freshman crew in their Sophomore year are in capital trim to take the places in the boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth in a race, and prefer to have tried men in the boat, and not to risk a race by putting...
...tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would set the fashion of attending the meetings which the "President has done all in his power to make attractive." If the President's attractive powers are fairly represented by his work on Metaphysics, it is hardly probable that this wish will be realized...