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...notices, that any such poster or placard put on trees in the city of Cambridge will be removed by the police. The regulation of the city which forbids the "posting of any bills or notices on any property of the city without permission from the Mayor," though an old one, has not been strictly enforced until this year...
...old year's dead...
PRESIDENT PORTER of Yale, in his work on American Colleges, discusses at some length the "system of elective studies as now carried out at Harvard," and compares this system and its results to the old method of prescribed studies throughout the four years' course at Yale. It is hardly necessary to say that President Porter is strongly opposed to the elective system, and gives many strong arguments in favor of the old-timed course of four years of prescribed work in Mathematics, Classics, and Philosophy...
...conquerors than to be magnanimous to our conquerors than to be magnanimous to our fallen foes. Xerxes would never hear any good of the Athenians; but the Black Prince waited upon King John at table. And I, if I had been victorious in my last encounter with my old enemies, might now play the Black Prince to the Examination System's King John. As it is - but who likes to sing of defeat...
...trees in the neighborhood of the Yard. But some one saw a member of that extremely able, civil, and energetic body, the Cambridge police force, taking down one of the H. A. A.'s posters from a tree on Main Street, and inquiries at the police headquarters revealed an old city ordinance, recently ordered to be enforced, which reads as follows...