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VERY different from the scene to which we are accustomed at the Boat House is that presented on the river at Oxford. Besides the Oxford University Boat Club, which sends the crew to meet Cambridge in the famous race every spring, nearly all of the twenty-four colleges have boat...
THE advocates of total abstinence are injuring rather than helping their cause, if the indecent attack recently made by Dr. Miner and his friends upon Professor Peabody be taken as an example. We do not know whether the former have the entire sympathy of the Prohibition party or no; but...
THERE has also been a universal desire expressed to have this year's changes in the Lawn Tennis rules placed before the lovers of that game. We therefore publish all the additions to, and changes in, the rules of last year, which were made last March, under the auspices of...
VERY slowly, indeed, the educational institutions of this country fall into line, as regards the proper study of English; and it is to be feared that Harvard is one of the slowest of them all. The Freshman year is entirely given over to studies which, in themselves important, are absolutely...
But our system as it now stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather...