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Among other compliments paid to '82, Prof. Paine has said it is the most musical class he has known for a number of years.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/15/1882 | See Source »

...character. It is, then, because of this that the vast majority of Americans feel the need and desire of education, and it is the need and desire of furnishing the poorer persons with this education, that caused the founding of the many colleges in the West. These colleges are mostly frequented by farmers' sons, or others, who must struggle hard for the coveted prize of learning. To suppose that these men could afford to leave their homes and come a thousand miles to attend such universities as Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton; to suppose that men could do this, when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1882 | See Source »

Five cases of minerals, numbering 1050 specimens, have been received from Paris, where they were bought for use in the chemical department. Most of the specimens will be used by students in Chemistry 2, and will be arranged as soon as possible.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/14/1882 | See Source »

Although Mr. Longfellow is credited with the opinion that Oscar Wilde is destined to make his mark as a poet, and although others have declared him to be a young man of grand poetic promise, we still cling to the popular judgment of the man and his work as being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1882 | See Source »

Very few of the business enterprises of undergraduates have ever yet made much of a success financially. Cases that seem to be exceptions to this statement have succeeded always for some exceptional reason; either because of extraordinary enterprise on the part of their projectors, or for outside support, or because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1882 | See Source »