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...course. The chief object is, not to enable boys to forestall the regular work of a professional school in order that they may begin their practice at an early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent and eager to learn, they hope to attract professors of the highest scholarship, who will be obliged to keep up and give evidence of their learning by publishing from time to time essays on subjects included in their special departments...
...here is our plan. Let two such discordant elements as Old Cambridge and the new and very manufactured Port be divorced. Prospect Street could be made the border-land of the finite and human, while Cambridge, Old Cambridge, would know no other law than the philosophy of the Unconditioned, transcending all the petty efforts of a Port government. The students and professors would be the voters of the town; and every ambitious Sophomore might air his rhetoric at the caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen...
...that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish women, and the prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters are quick...
...Several men gather around, and talk to me in the heathenish dialect of the country. I conclude to go no farther to-day, and tell them so. They seem satisfied, yet make no reply. Splendid scenery, although a thick fog, which has suddenly settled down upon us, renders the prospect somewhat indistinct...
...story is about to be repeated, - the "University Crew" need ready money; and as the outstanding subscriptions are almost sufficient to carry the crew through training, we take the opportunity here offered to remind the men that they would further the interest of rowing, and the prospect for the coming year, if they would call at the Treasurer's room, No. 14 Little's Block, and at once pay the amount of their subscriptions. Appended is a list of the crews and the time...