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...regard of its academic rivals. An Englishman might meditate on Mr. Lowell's eloquent tribute to the historic glories of Oxford and Cambridge, and think that Harvard was not without compensation for their absece. In England the alumni of the old Universities feel that they are immemorial institutions which need little help from them. The alumni of Harvard felt that the college belonged to themselves, had been enriched by the munificence of many who were present and looked to them all for the means of increasing her future usefulness...
...experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something out of nothing, and who with good health and fair play will make in time a department of which not even "John Donne" need be ashamed...
...Welsh spoke earnestly of the great need of the Indians for education; for clear titles to land and the privileges of holding land in severalty; above all, for law. The civil service rules should be applied to the choice of land agents and of all Indian officials. The spoils system is the cause of much of the present distress among the Indians, and should be abolished. The speaker closed with an earnest appeal to his hearers to give their personal attention and aid to these oppressed peoples...
...Rome were wholly without lights at night, and consequently were very favorable places for the operations of theives and foot-pads. The police, besides the ordinary duties of their office, were obliged to act as fire men. The frequency of disasterous fires in Rome is too well known to need comment. Mr. Lanciani closed his lecture as usual with appropriate stereopticon views...
...class and one from the freshman class. The election is governed by competition and an editorship is therefore now open to any member of the two lower classes who by his contributions to the paper shall prove his eligibility to the position. No man who feels interested in competing need feel restrained from doing so as the competition is made as general as possible. There has been a wide spread interest already manifested but it is hoped that more will be led to contribute...