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Blue books must be handed in Phil. 4, tomorrow...
...Vassar girls have a peculiar phraseology of their own, as I noticed when I went to their annual "Phil" on Friday evening by invitation of a tempting "cousin." In addition to the ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males...
...called professional instruction. Johns Hopkins aims at original scientific investigation. Harvard holds to the old method of direct instruction, (with unimportant exceptions), in non-professional lines. There are no courses at Harvard, we believe, in Administrative Law, in the History of Political Theories, (slightly touched on in Phil 5 and Greek 8), or practically in Social Science. The instruction in Several other branches is also inferior in extent to that at these schools. The aim of Harvard in this matter, we believe, is to secure exact scholarship, rather than to offer the widest practical advantages...
...second thesis in Phil. 4, is due on Thursday next...
...first thesis in Phil. 4 was returned yesterday. The subject of the next thesis will be Shaftesbury, and will be due Thursday...