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...president of Dartmouth College caught one of the students helping himself to wood from the presidential pile. 'Young man,' saith the venerable officer, 'what authority have you for taking away that wood?' To which the youthful rogue, mindful of his Latin syntax, replied, 'Opus and Usus, signifying 'need,' require the 'Ablative.' 'Take it, my son, take it,' said the old man; 'but when you have need again come to me and I will give you better authority than that...
...society. It appears from the catalogue (which makes no account of the number of students who have entered the Scientific School since October) that the Scientific is numerically as strong as either the Divinity or the Theological schools. It seems to me that the Cooperative Society will need help from every available source, and that it failed to display foresight when it repelled the cooperation of a considerable institution, which is now making a most rapid growth...
JUNIOR FORENSICS.Subjects for Third Forensic: Does the possession of a good memory afford any indication of the presence or absence of other mental powers? Is there a need of reform in the civil service of the United States?- [The first three subjects of Third Senior Forensic may be taken by Juniors.] Due from sections 1 and 2 today; from sections 3 and 4, March...
...Eliot's article on the elective system is of immediate and significant interest to every Harvard man. The public will doubtless receive it as an official outlining of the future policy of this university; indeed it is substantially a statement of her present policy; and if Harvard were in need of any justification of her present system, in the discussion on this subject now going on in the public press, this might serve for that purpose. President Eliot says...
...They have pulled long enough to be able to handle an oar in a scientific manner, and no one doubts that they do so. Their experience in previous races will stand them well in hand, and if they pull as lusty an oar as they did last year Yale need have little fear...