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Such a thing, however, could only be brought about by time, and at present we have only to think of the successful management of our more humble publication. To this we invite the contributions of those of our instructors who may feel, as we do, that this is a means to the very desirable end of a better acquaintance. Many of the foregoing ideas were confirmed, and some suggested, by a recent talk on the subject with one of our Professors...
...President Eliot's return from England it is expected that many minor changes will be introduced in the College, and, perhaps, several of greater moment. These novelties will be modelled, it is to be presumed, on the present systems in vogue at Oxford and at Cambridge, as the chief object of the President's visit to England was to study these systems. To those of us who are of conservative proclivities, the expectation of any changes whatever is, to say the least, disquieting; but when the new regulations are to be copied from the English systems, the prospect is decidedly...
...with regard to the comparison between English and German scholarship), any changes founded upon them should be regarded with anything but a friendly eye; and especially should they be thus regarded, since the Englishmen, who as a rule are never prone to decry their own institutions, have attacked the present arrangements so vigorously that a royal commission was appointed, a short time ago, to examine the condition of the Universities, and recommend whatever changes they might deem advisable. Surely, if those customs which have existed almost from time immemorial, fail when they are on their native heath, they cannot...
...know the Bowdoin Orient will improve, we feel no scruples in saying that the present number is poor. A threadbare poem opens the number; there is also a poem on "Nosorora" or some such sonorously named female, the whole idea and gist of which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form...
...science, it should be a matter of greater pride to send out men thoroughly educated in the means of legislating and governing wisely. A complete course in college for training men to be useful and honest statesmen is what Mr. Adams thought most needful to be added to the present courses of instruction...