Word: novelizations
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...number was no exception to the rule, though in many respects not up to our ideas of such a publication. It unfortunately possessed in some degree the fault common to most of its kind, weakness in illustration, but its general appearance is prepossessing. The heavy bound covers are a novel but sensible departure, while the outside design is very unique and artistic. In our opinion it makes a great mistake in publishing the usual string of personal squibs on the various members of the junior class, which must always be somewhat vulgar. A special feature of this numbers...
...Vacation has passed, and it is with mingled feelings that we begin the next step of our college course. New faces are met at every turn, while old ones fill new places. Everything seems novel and strange to all at the beginning of a college year. The older and more experienced men on whom we leaned, and in whom our faith was grounded, have left the college halls, and inexperience and crudity must for a time be expected. [News...
...professors like other men are mortal, a theory which has heretofore met with a very cold reception from the learned world at large. But this case we regret to record does not stand alone. It is but lately that the papers have been filled with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned...
...post-graduate department of Yale College will take up this year a novel course of study, namely, that of railroads and their growth, shipping and international trade, stocks, and the effect of speculation on the money market...
...special study for their own improvement. The instruction is to be carried on by correspondence between the professors and the pupils. About twenty-five professors have already been engaged who receive a certain amount from each pupil according to the character of the study. The plan is certainly a novel one, and if successful will become an important factor in the educational development of the country...