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...world formula insofar forth" as expressed in the Phi Beta Kappa "as such." Mr. Dodge to the idealism of Marlowe, Massinger and Middleton, contrasted with the subjective idealism of Byron, Browning and Walt Whitman," Mr. Lathrop to "Early rising and its influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund and its influence on the human brain...
...first part of the lecture was a detailed description of the laboratory. The laboratory, Prof. Trowbridge said, is divided into two equal parts, one for elementary work and the other for special research. The large lecture-room, intended for general elementary lectures, is fitted up with the best modern appliances, with running water, with high-pressure hot water, with electric currents, with oxygen-hydrogen lamps, etc. The room above is the elementary; etc. The room above is the elementary; it is sixty feet by sixty feet, the largest of its kind, and is used by one hundred and thirty students...
...interesting, too, to note how the desire to inquire into the causes of things, and how the love of science had grown upon him, when he wrote the "Italian Journey." If Goethe the man is worth knowing; if he be the chief figure in modern letters, we must study the record of his life...
Taylor's "Manual of Ancient and Modern History," $2.00; published...
...things Mr. Thayer deplores in the journalism of today-journalistic conceit, and irresponsibility as to the truth of published reports. His advice to those who intend to enter the profession is to pay particular attention to Political Economy, History, and modern literature while in college, and after entering a newspaper office to expect neither large pay nor speedy advancement, but to be content to work up slowly...