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...editors conclude their paper with a bitter address containing an instructive homily on things in general and college journalism in particular. They say: "The deficiency of our subscription list has made it convenient to our publisher, that the present number be the last of the HARVARD LYCEUM . . .After the laborious exertions of nine months, such a conclusion is a mortifying recompense for the devotion of time, and the pains of composition." They make complaint also of the opposition they have met from envious associates and say: "In a place too where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred...
...servant, and Mrs. Butterfield having agreed to slip down and attend to it, they went up to the drawing-room. There they found Asphyxia and two of her friends who were to pour out tea for the company and attend to the masculine "small-fry" who might be present. Asphyxia was dressed in a saffron colored cashmere. The skirt was perfectly plain and fell in natural folds to within six inches of the ground; her feet and ankles coming into prominence thereby, were encased in low shoes and yellow stockings which were within a shade or two of the color...
...believe the plan, recently introduced at the University of Michigan, at Bowdoin, and at some other colleges, of admitting students upon the presentation of a diploma from any duly approved preparatory school, has been found to be very successful and satisfactory in its workings. It manifestly does away with many of the terrors and well known disadvantages of the ordinary entrance examination; and any means of reforming the evils of the present examination system is to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that Harvard will soon see her way to adoption, wholly or in part, of this or some...
...much to be hoped that the university will be able to secure a professor of German before the beginning of the next academic year. The college has excellent instructors in that department at present, but it is becoming very evident that a head to the department should be appointed, and that its courses and methods of instruction should be thoroughly reorganized and arranged anew. Of course time is required for the selection of a competent incumbent for the position, but it must be remembered that the interests of the present suffer with the continuance of the delay...
...present the following as a specimen of English classical school verse-making. It is from the Bradfield School Chronicle...