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...general idea of them, but one sees at once that the Unions are much more extensive and business-like than anything we have at Harvard. Each Society owns the building it occupies; at least, I infer that Oxford does. The President of the Cambridge Union writes that their "present building is large and extensive, and embraces a library, debating-hall, closets and offices on the ground floor; a magazine room and writing room on the second floor; and a smoking and coffee room and reference room on the third floor. It is thus a kind of undergraduate club, but differs...
...committee has to provide a subject; no written speeches can be delivered. I have not the report of the Oxford Union, but in Cambridge the debates seem quite well attended; I did not find less than seventy-seven who voted on any motion, and there were over a hundred present at most of the meetings. There is a very interesting list of the additions made to the Library during the last year and of the periodicals taken by the Society, which shows that the members are intelligent and interested in the latest researches in all departments of knowledge. The whole...
...Constitution at Harvard, as it appears to be at some other colleges; and that both are studied in the most abstract manner. As our former article appears to have been misunderstood in so high a quarter, it may be well to supplement it with a brief notice of the present scope of the required and elective courses in Political Science at Harvard. On the importance of such studies we will not at present dwell...
...THERE is not a building, nor a corner of a building, with which a Harvard man can have any pleasant associations from beauty of architecture." This is lamentable, but undeniable. Harvard College, in its present condition, is a wilderness of brick and mortar, and is only saved from positive ugliness by its venerable elms and shady lawns. Aside from architectural grace, most of our buildings are composed of that ugliest of materials, - red brick. A red brick building never becomes venerable, - it merely grows dingy. No amount of smoke, mould, or historic interest, can improve such a structure in appearance...
...ends of Harvard and Holworthy, and, above all, Memorial, ivy or some kindred plant would hang most gracefully. If the naked sides of Memorial were veiled with a rich growth of ivy, the hall might in time be considered a picturesque and beautiful feature in the landscape; while, at present, it appears decidedly to the best advantage at night...