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...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...
...said to be at work on a method of fonetic spelling...
...election of a captain of next year's foot-ball, as decided upon by Mr. Kimball, meets our hearty approval. The selection of a captain thoroughly representative of our foot-ball interests and competent to train an eleven is assured. Although no precedent exists for such a method of election, the circumstances fully warrant the step taken by last year's captain. It now remains for the foot-ball men to lay aside all personal feeling and elect a man who will lead Harvard's eleven to victory next fall...
...very slow growth." To this aphorism there are few exceptions. But it seems to us that in the case of our own University and its students, there has been a great change within a short time in its moral sentiment as applied to many things. The childish method of going through college with as little work as possible, cutting as many recitations as is allowed, because it is "manly" so to do, hazing, etc.; all this is now done away with, because of the growth and education of public sentiment. Yet all this change from a childish to a manly...
...action, action, action." At the risk of referring to a prickly "chestnut," we would ask the faculty to turn with new year's vim to the marking system. Toleration of this evil has been their policy too long. Let 1886 see some improvement in Harvard's back-woods musty method of grading students. For the students at large we would offer as a motto for the new year, let it be marked by greater earnestness in the departments of athletics, scholarships and manly work...