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...Alma Mater. He referred with much feeling to his college days, and advocated the keeping up of college feeling, and a community of interests among the students as sons of a common Alma Mater. He advised young journalists to regard matter more than form, and maintained that any one with something to say could express it. As an alumnus of the College, and an editor of distinction himself, his remarks were listened to with great interest. He was followed by Professor William Everett, who spoke of some of the peculiarities of student life in the English Universities, alluding...
...Every Saturday comes to us full of good reading-matter. A new serial, entitled "Far from the Madding Crowd," authorship unknown, bids fair to create a new sensation in the world of novels. Any one who may have had difficulty in comprehending the game of Ombre, in Pope's "Rape of the Lock," will find it elucidated at some length in the number of February 14. An editorial department devoted to literary criticism is ably conducted...
...Amherst Student, in an editorial, assigns its reasons for withdrawing from the Regatta in a straightforward, manly way which commands our respect, though we think her action a mistaken one. If the pledges of the Saratoga Rowing Association are fulfilled, Amherst will again enter the contest next year...
FROM our fancied acquaintance with College matters, we have scarcely felt the important changes that have been going on during the last few years. It has been said, "experiments never go backward." As far as Harvard is concerned, few of the recent reforms have failed, hardly one having been abandoned. The substitution of the long vacation for several shorter and more rational ones, the perfecting of the elective system, with permission to anticipate the required studies, the privileges afforded to the Seniors of next year, - the last and most radical change, - these are the most popular, if not the most...
...gain from anticipating some of the required studies is very great. Many subjects, taken as a whole, are quite interesting, but become, when dealt out piecemeal, - ground out in two-page doses, - inexpressibly tedious! By a little study in the long vacation, one can easily anticipate one or more of the required courses, as a little work, if regular, does wonders, when the mind is free from the many engrossing attractions of college life. The time gained by this anticipation can be employed very profitably; for a man can give more time to some favorite elective, and become far more...