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...great have been the achievements under the last sixty years of British rule that the Victorian Age must be a mark in history. Yet it is not for this that we most honor the dead Queen, but from the witness of her life that "it is possible to live nobly, even in a palace." Because she was free from worldliness in the greatest of world-centres; because she held simple faith and love above all that the world could give, we forget the monarch we have lost, and remember only the woman and the friend...
...William G. Thayer of St. Mark's School will preach at Christ Church on Sunday morning...
...college standards lower than those of Harvard will be raised but very little, while the Harvard requirements must inevitably be lessened by compromise with these lower standards of the smaller colleges. It is conceivable that Harvard might keep up its own standard by the freedom to establish what passing mark it should choose, but this freedom granted to the colleges seriously damages the whole theory of the uniform examination system; for there could be in the secondary schools no uniform preparation for two colleges requiring respectively 40 and 90 per cent of knowledge of the same subject...
...Kendall '02, is marred by the unfortunate fact, which the author overlooks, that grapes do not grow on trees. "Armor," by W. Bynner '02, is a pretty little meditation about love containing nothing original or new. A sonnet by H. M. Ayres '02 aims high and nearly reaches the mark...
...report on the Zoological Laboratory, by Professor E. L. Mark, gives a detailed resume of the work done in the laboratory, during the past year, by the different classes and by some of the individual students. The report on the geological and geographical laboratories, written by Professors Shaler, Davis, Jackson and Ward, is, to an outsider, the most interesting chapter in the pamphlet. It contains accounts of the field work being done by the different classes, of the surveying and geological mapping of the Middlesex Fells Reservation and of the different explorations recently carried on by members of the department...