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A PHILANTHROPIST in doubt where to invest his money for the greatest good of the public would have had his doubts dispelled if he had passed the Bursar's Office at any time on Tuesday night. The sight of nearly a dozen men sitting up all night to secure some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

Character. - Self-confident and self-asserting. Strong belief in freedom of thought, and in no one who disagrees with him. Deep interest in everything tending to develop mental power, and in nothing else. Remarkable aptitude to discovery of new and astonishing theories, usually founded upon a priori reasoning. Conversation varied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNEMIDOLOGY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

We have no idea of underrating the advantages of that elective system, but we do deny that it is the only influence at work here, or that it is so pre-eminently the chief influence that the others may be safely disregarded. Where so many causes are at work it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

Again, a week or ten days is perhaps left before some comparatively easy required or elective examination, and the reaction from excessive cramming ruins a man's pluck in keeping to his work, and he accomplishes little or nothing after it. Where the examinations are sandwiched in, the practical result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

Fine Arts 3 is intended as a continuation of Fine Arts 2. Fine Arts 1 will go over the same ground again, devoting five hours a week to drawing and one to recitations. The text-book used is Ruskin's "Modern Painters." Marks are given on drawings and on examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ELECTIVES. | 5/7/1875 | See Source »