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...still the professors have, with but one exception in the whole history of the school, been taken from the ranks of the active profession. The later tendency, however, may be seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded on all sides as admirable, and great was the disappointment when Professor Holmes was transferred to the Supreme Bench. Judge Holmes is himself a good type of the class of lawyers Harvard seeks to give the country...
...than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James Russell Lowell to an acquaintance in Europe in the year of Lowell's graduation. He wrote that James Lowell had fallen in his studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear, James promised me that he would give up writing poetry and go to work." What would our professor in English say to the suggestive simile made...
...Prof. Baermann, though showing great facility of execution yet lacked nothing in beauty of expression. The new symphony in C minor by Frederic H. Cowen, performed for the first time, was somewhat bombastic, the noticeable "noise" being very inappropriate for the allegro. The whole composition was somewhat unsatisfactory and rather tiresome; it departed a trifle from the classical cadre. The fantasy (Don Juan) rendered by Prof. Baermann, is in itself one of the best of Liszt's compositions, and the skill of the pianist brought out all its salient points. Mr. Baermann was deservedly recalled three times after this selection...
...guest at Memorial one day last term, when he heard of the many complaints against the fare, declared that it was fully as good as Yale students got at New Haven. "In either case," he said, "the meat could be chewed, and the bottom of a cup of the rather weak coffee was not actually visible to the naked...
...McGill fifteen visited Cambridge and were defeated by Harvard by a score of one goal and three touchdowns to nothing. In 1879 the Brittania team came down to Boston, and, after a rather exciting contest, were defeated, two goals and one touchdown to nothing. A few days later, Harvard played a return match with them in Montreal, scoring one goal to nothing for Brittania. The following Monday, in spite of snow and extremely disagreeable weather, a game was commenced with the McGill team, but, at the close of the first half, both teams were ready to withdraw and the game...