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...help of which he was to lay the walls of a brilliant and successful life. It had developed his mind, strengthened his intellect, given capacity and grasp and method and direction to his mental action. Does all this give a pledge for usefulness in this world only? Does it offer no prophecy of extended usefulness in the world to come? Is there not a significance in the terms of the reward granted to great faithfulness, - "I will make thee a ruler over many things"? May we not interpret God's call to our young friend as a summons to something...
Those who have the most to regret give for their reasons, first, the failure to do conscientious work; and second, the inability or indifference with which they chose their electives. As to an incentive towards the former, we can offer no plan by which a Freshman can be convinced that it is his duty before anything else to do conscientious work in his studies. Our article concerns only the selection of those studies from which a man is likely to derive the most benefit in graduating. What electives one should take for the purpose of making a specialty of them...
...heroes the honor, however slight, of transmitting the memory of their heroism to future generations. Has she shown the proper spirit on the day when of all others some fitting token should be placed upon these tablets? Has she no time to pause a moment to offer up a few flowers at the shrine of their martyrdom, a few brief words of consecration within those hallowed walls...
...Sophs and Seniors offer odds, and scoff...
...have been written by a Harvard man to an acquaintance at Yale. The letter is published in full, names excepted, and is apparently a private one. The News must pardon us if we say that we do not consider it the legitimate province of a college paper to publish offers to bet any more than we would consider it proper for the News to sell pools officially, or to offer through the medium of its columns to give odds that their next issue will partake more of the character of the New York Clipper than the News of Friday...