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...most difficult part is the stopping. When you reach Parker's you are shot out of the tube at a very rapid rate, and if there were nothing to check your velocity you would be dashed to pieces. This is obviated by having a proctor stand at the tube, not to catch, but only to retard...
...John Winthrop was a professor of Physics and Astronomy in Harvard College. He was very well known, during the latter part of the last century, by several works on astronomy, which may be found among the publications of the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow. He made the best observation of the transit of Venus taken during the eighteenth century. He also published some books on earthquakes. A short time ago a certain professor had the curiosity to ask all the professors here whether they knew anything of this once celebrated John Winthrop. Only two had ever heard...
...like Strasburg geese has become a serious matter. More than a fixed amount of work, especially in history, cannot be done without neglect of other courses, and extra work, if forced upon those who take the elective, is performed at the expense of the regular and more important part of the year's study in that department. Thesis-writing compels neglect of the topics on the syllabus. The last examination has shown this to be not a theory, but a fact; and we hope that this is not the only instance where the instructor will perceive the wisdom of giving...
...Jessie," and Jessie appears to be a New Hampshire girl that he met when he was on that tramp last summer. He talks about her as if she were a dryad, or naiad, or something of the sort, and exhibits a cardinal flower that he says formed part of a garland with which he twined her brows. He wrote a poem about her, too, and has got it published in the Echo...
...Alumni dinner in Boston. In reply to a remark that after the Freshman year there was no discipline at Harvard, Dr. Peabody said that in a prehistoric term he had been a tutor at Harvard, and that then, with about 200 students under them, the Faculty spent the greater part of their time in administering penal discipline. Now, with the number of students largely increased, such a case of discipline happens not once in three months. He was happy to say that the student is no longer a savage, but a civilized being. It is true, he remarked, that after...