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"There is one more point upon which we must animadvert, and this is the miserable delivery of the Harvard graduates. After each inevitable expectatur of the President, a youth was seen to mount the rostrum with all the awkwardness of persons who feel themselves in a false position, heightened by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DEBATING." | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

The feeling among the students in regard to the place where the next regatta should be held is strongly in favor of Saratoga. Springfield and New London are out of the question, and the dispute now is between Saratoga and Troy. It seems likely at present that the delegates will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER FROM CORNELL. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

If the word "moderation" is once mentioned to a temperance reformer, it is a frightful tirade he commences. It is useless to suggest that the best men in England and this country do not approve or practice total abstinence. No one can tell, he truly says, how much more eminent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEMPERANCE AT HARVARD. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

The primary object of the regatta is to test the merits of the crews, no crew having the slightest advantage over another as regards position, etc.; and this being the case, the first point sought after is a proper rowing course, irrespective of any and all other considerations. Now, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEXT REGATTA. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

This antipathy is, if anything, a greater cause of ignorance than the expense which schooling involves. Our instruction, it is true, is not free. Yet very few can allege poverty as the cause of their ignorance. Besides the fact that a son a day is not a large sum to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF FRANCE. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »