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...unusually large number of exchanges which meets our editorial gaze upon our return shows us at a glance that our reading and culling must be rapid, if we would satisfy the demands of the rapacious printer, and sustain the Magenta's well-earned reputation of always appearing on time. We take this opportunity, though late, of returning the profuse tenders of Christmas and New Year greetings, of which the college press in general has been so lavish...
...Juniors are making rapid progress in Physics this term. We heard one a few evenings ago, while crossing the campus, remark that the "amount of profanity varied directly as the square of the depth of the mind...
...chief object of the first year is only the acclimation of the would-be student, and the instructor's duty is only to keep the mind from falling into its primitive weakness, a tutor's services are doubtless as efficient as any could be. But if rapid progress in clear and determinate knowledge is desired, if universal and indisputable truths are sought instead of partial and half-tested theories, an experience greater than a tutor's becomes necessary...
...come to the close of another week, we note with almost a shiver the rapid flight of time which has nearly brought us to the end of our first collegiate month,- one ninth of the college year already gone. Scarcely yet has the Tabular View been fully committed, the new names of classes rightly applied, or any one fairly settled down to the plan of work he had laid out for himself. Wonderfully seductive are these golden autumn days to lovers of the country and out-door sports, and although, by dint of required recitations judiciously disposed from the first...
...will long remain a part of the history of Boston. May we not suppose that, as the burning of the "Temple of Diana," at Ephesus, celebrated the birthday of so invincible a conqueror as Alexander of Macedon, so the Boston conflagration was the herald of great glory to so rapid a communicator as our Harvard Telegraph...