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...students with interesting courses of lectures in their respective branches, we look in vain to find desirable activity among the members of the Philosophical Club. The excellence of this department in the college curriculum is well known, and the courses fairly popular; so a course of lectures on modern thought would instruct a large number of appreciative and intelligent students. Let us hope that a representative of some school of philosophy, not favored by our professors may be induced to come to Cambridge...
...section in Philosophy I will use as a text book for the rest of the year, Sterling's translation of Schwegler's "General History of Modern Philosophy...
...suggestions in the forensic work of the year. Some comment was make upon the proper selection of subjects and the mode of treatment of the subject when once selected. Writers are especially advised to consult more than one standard authority and to revise their work with great care. The modern French method of magazine writing may be followed to advantage. This system provides for an introduction and the division of the essay proper under various legitimate, well ordered heads. The exposition should be as concise as possible and ought to exhibit independent thorough study. The speaker properly complained...
...alumni should be represented only by the extremely talented or the hopelessly mediocre. While we feel that the clever men have, of late, been prone to claim rather more than their share of public attention, yet we are rather inclined to the belief that there is a place in modern literature which can be best filled by their writings. The fact that cleverness may fail to secure anything like a lasting reputation for its possessor is not a cheerful matter for contemplation, but when it is remembered that lasting reputations are the exception rather than the rule, we can appreciate...
Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before him a note, yellow with age, dated 1839, which runs as follows...