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...Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics," by J. B. Stallo, has recently been added to the "International Scientific Series...
...this term, thus allowing the juniors a choice between French and Latin, and also between mineralogy, practical chemistry and mathematics. The entire system will go into effect the first of next year, after which the higher mathematics will be optional, and a choice will be given between ancient and modern languages, mathematics and the sciences. This change will be a great improvement, and will, undoubtedly, meet with general favor...
...they used to have under the old system, of seeing the man who attempted to do the hiving make a grand burst of speed toward the mill pond, clawing wildly at his legs, leaping at times four feet into the air, and yelling like a Comanche Indian. Modern invention will yet knock all the fun out of life...
...divine Oscar will soon be wafted to Boston, and then we shall see whether the cultured and literary inhabitants of "Modern Athens" burn and are utterly consumed with the fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform...
...great bug-bears now are evening chapel and the present marking system. The opposition to these antiquated customs is very great among the students, and seems to have infected some members of the faculty, and we hope that these grievances, too, will yield to more modern usages...