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...have received a reprint in one volume of the edition of the "Lives," edited by the poet Clough, and published in five volumes in 1859. The translation is an old one of the seventeenth century, but it has been considered to be a better translation than could now be made; in reviving it, however, Clough succeeded in correcting many inaccuracies and mistranslations without marring its inimitable style. At the time of its first appearance the revision was highly praised, and the work may be said to have altogether superseded the inferior translation of the one then in common use, Langhorne...
...acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard against us, the score stood one touch-down to nothing, in our favor...
...posting the weather reports on the bulletin board in front of University has been discontinued. These reports were consulted regularly by the students, and always were studied by one of the oldest members of the Faculty. We hope that we may be allowed to keep up our acquaintance with Old Probabilities...
...Trinity Tablet greatly yearns for Latin services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially...
THERE can be no doubt that a majority of the Senior class are at present in favor of a return to the old-fashioned Class Day. Now it has been rightly conjectured that unless Seventy-eight has a successful Class Day, this year will see the last of the traditional Class Day, and the substitution of a Corporation Day, in which Harvard College shall be lost sight of in Harvard University...