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...compelled to seriously cramp and injure her active instruction, should not efforts be made to remove these disabilities before they are made for securing accommodations chiefly for future use or for minor aims? The Nation, a paper which is one of the most intelligent friends of the university, has often commented upon the ill-organized and poorly paid instruction of the freshman year at Harvard. And even if the faculty does intend soon to remodel and raise the standard of our freshman course, that is no reason why it should be left so much at loose ends for the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1882 | See Source »

...class of gentlemen whose chief delight is in tearing to pieces anything that remotely hints of any imitation of European "effeteness." But a correspondent in the last Nation really states the essential points of the argument most clearly. The grounds of the discussion are simple enough, but are too often lost sight of by undiscriminating fathers in choosing between Yale and Harvard, and by thoughtless conservatives generally. This correspondent points out the well-enough recognized fact that the average age of entrance at Harvard now is about the same as that of graduation fifty years ago, and indeed of graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1882 | See Source »

...Perry yesterday continued his lectures on English Literature, his subject being "Pope." He discussed the Dunciad in detail and at some length, describing the literary enmities that had induced the composition of the work and giving some account of the victims "impaled like flies" who are now often remembered solely on this account. The concluding books are less personal than the first and the work ends with a very fine apostrophe. The coarse grossness of the Dunciad illustrates well the brutal spirit and thin polish of the century. After alluding to the pseudo-classical spirit that pervaded continental and English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1882 | See Source »

...sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most is the "moan followed by applause at the end" of a murder scene, for which the groanist gets 10s. 5d. "a go." The profession of actor is often a lucrative one; of a playwright who hits the popular taste, a brilliantly paid one; but the man who could get continuous orders for "moans followed by applause" at the rate of half-a-guinea a sigh would do better business than either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1882 | See Source »

...among scholars should be decided upon, and this method should be taught to students as far as practicable. Much confusion and annoyance are caused to men taking notes by the use of the different pronunciations; especially is this noticeable in history and philosophy courses, where quotations and expressions are often used that are incomprehensible to many hearers. In addition to these considerations it would certainly give increased individuality to the institution to have throughout, one manner of pronouncing such a universally studied language as Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1882 | See Source »