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...have received a contribution, which is crowded out of this issue, upholding the merits of walking as an exercise and as a recreation. Our English cousins are far ahead of us in this particular; no Cantab would be able to forego his daily stroll of five miles or so, and Switzerland bristles with their knickerbockers during the long vacation. A number of students here have been in the habit, for some time, of taking weekly strolls through the surrounding country; Drake's book, "The Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex," furnishing a most interesting guide for their rambles. Prospect Hill...
...character. The first blow was struck by the Record, in a four-page editorial of immoderate tone, charging the Courant with not fairly representing the College, and with having failed to perform the pledges given at its start. The spleen of the writer, however, is evidently directed against a particular individual, and finds vent in numerous villifying and offensive personalities. In the same issue a would-be humorous article contains several coarse and vulgar jokes at the expense of the Courant board. Thus far our sympathy is with the Courant, but, unfortunately for its fair repute, it now enters...
...review of the different studies. But in doing so we ask that criticisms shall be just, and that the opportunity shall not be taken to find fault with instructors and electives generally, simply because they are such, or because a student finds pleasure in directing his remarks against a particular professor or course of study...
Once in the Rhetoric class one is qualified to read with profit the best French authors; but nothing is read except what has particular reference to rhetoric or style; as, for example, the Pensees de Pascal, the Oraisons Funebres of Bossuet, the works of Fenelon upon Eloquence, La Bruyere, the Fables de la Fontaine, the classical productions of Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, etc. At the same time they study, in Latin, Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric, Tacitus, Virgil, Horace, and extracts from Lucretius; in Greek, Thucydides, the orations of Demosthenes, Sophocles, and parts of Aristophanes. Besides, students are required...
...this because of an article which appears on "Harvard Clubs," purporting to be a true exposition of the status of the clubs and societies of Harvard. The article, besides being calculated to create a false impression by its general tenor, is notably inaccurate in most of its particular assertions...