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...life at college. The scenes preceding the hero's admission to college are admirably drawn and the account of the Alpine trip is entertaining. The most prominent character is Norton Randolph, a good-natured misanthrope, a cynic of cynics, well read in all the literature of the past and present, and well guarded against all excitement or emotion. We won't say that we have met exactly such a person at college, but we have met a few very like him. The explanation given of the cause of his peculiar character is the only improbable thing about...
...Hillyer art gallery at Smith College, Northampton, is now open to the public on Saturdays. The principal addition to the gallery of paintings, the present year, is a most excellent and life-like portrait of the founder of the gallery of art, Winthrop Hillyer, painted during the present year by N. B. Kittrell. An extensive series of colored plates, representing the noted altar pieces in the most celebrated churches in the world, as well as the master-pieces of fresco painting by the old masters, have also been added to the collection...
...rooms or instructors for them. It should be remembered, let us mention right here, that Harvard's classes always sound much larger to us than they are; the numbers they give - 286 this year - include what would be counted with us under different departments. Reckoning this way, our present freshman class numbers about 250. This is evident when we remember that Harvard's sum total is but little greater than ours. However, we do not propose to enter into a discussion on numbers, for we have always been taught that it is quality and not quantity which counts...
Yesterday afternoon the eleven played their first game on Holmes field against the eleven from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In spite of the chilly, disagreeable weather about four hundred spectators were present. The game was called at 4.20, Goodwin, '84, acting as referee, and Mason, '84, as umpire for Harvard, and Bennett for the institute. After several attempts at goals from the field Hammond succeeded in scoring a touch-down for Harvard from which Edmands kicked a goal. Nothing more was scored by either side in the first half. In the second half Harvard pressed her opponents much more...
...standard of scholarship higher than that required by candidates for ordinary degrees will of course be required. In the meanwhile, in the absence of any authoritative announcements in regard to the new provision, all men who wish to be considered candidates for the A. M. are advised to present their applications to the academic council, who will decide upon the respective qualifications of the applicants...