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...averse to sentiment. As a natural consequence, therefore, those who provoke his displeasure expose themselves to some form of caricature more or less mild; while those who gain his regard have for the most part uninterrupted silence for their reward. Silence is the student's mark of approbation. The present case serves to illustrate this. There is not one of us who has not been impressed with the unfailing courtesy and politeness that have characterized the discharge of the Dean's duties; yet it is only now, when the office is to pass into other hands, that it occurs...
...WHEN the present elective system went into force, the English department enjoyed a peculiar privilege in alone continuing to have its work required after the Freshman year. It is certainly to be regretted that the instructors in this department show so little disposition to recognize and profit by this fact. It would be natural to suppose that they would have endeavored to demonstrate by their efficiency and liberality the wisdom of the Faculty in continuing to require Rhetoric, Themes, and Forensics. It is only too evident, however, that this is not the case. The action of Professor Hill, in giving...
...strict sense of the word. It is, we think, the general opinion that the Echo has never been all that a Harvard daily should be, nor yet all it at one time gave promise of becoming. In a new enterprise deficiencies are to be excused; but the present volume of the Echo falls considerably below the standard of its predecessors. And yet it would seem as if, among the battalions of editors which our cotemporary boasts, enough talent and energy might be found to secure freedom from grammatical and typographical errors, at least. We are of the opinion that Harvard...
...gratifying to note that Professor Hill is delivering lectures in English literature. We hope these lectures may be largely attended, since it can hardly be said that Harvard men at present excel in this department. But it is at least as important to obtain correct ideas of our own writers as to be proficient in Terence or Aristophanes; and a chance is offered - particularly valuable to those who take no English courses - to learn a little something about our noble English literature. And once having heard Professor Hill speak upon subjects wherein he is so competent to pronounce opinions...
...approach; and he who after seeing Subdin drew near to Din was reckoned the most rash of mortals. The fourth dragon was a white dragon, known as Rejistrah: and there was a strange legend about him, that he had once been a sea-jay, compelled to assume his present form because of his insolence to the gods. This Rejistrah was ruled over by the fifth dragon, said by some to have been the Third Witch in Macbeth; and this last was usually called Fothi-rejistrah, or, by some, Haricaris. In the presence of these five terrible dragons did our little...