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...elated over the result of my eclaircissements, and in fact didn't care much about Amy or myself or anybody else. My head began to whirl and ache, and with every pitch of the boat I longed to get to land somewhere, though it was on the bottom; and rather preferred the latter place. Amy looked at me in a frightened sort of a way, and wanted to know if I felt well; and, if I recollect aright, I informed her that it was none of her confounded biz. The boat was getting into the trough...
...very fact that the body of students who attended the theatre last Tuesday evening went in the name of the class, should have operated to make them behave themselves at least decently, even if they possessed in themselves no leaven of gentlemanliness. That they did not, is a disgrace rather to the schools which sent them here, than to Harvard College. But the latter is compelled to undergo all the reproach. It is now time for the press generally to magnify and distort the actual occurrences, which need no misrepresentation in order to be condemned. The blame belongs...
...year. The instructor in Greek 3, however, especially encouraged men to take the course again, and so finish reading Herodotus. The course has been shown to be perhaps the most profitable Greek course for the majority of men, - those who wish to attain facility in reading Greek rather than to master technicalities which they must soon forget, unless they expect to teach. Now the Echo's assumption, that this facility is gained in the work of two hours a week for some thirty weeks, implies a facility of acquiring the Greek language which few (probably none) have. Professor White certainly...
...elect, in what year to take it, by whom it is taught, and, most important of all, of what the course consists. For this students ought to feel thankful to Professors Shaler and Whitney, by whom this plan has been adopted. As to the quality of the instruction, or rather of the lectures, in geology, there is no need of a word of commendation...
...Club of New York, last spring, and finally they have been successful. It is easy to see the advantage of this step. It will tend to increase the patronage of the University, to remove those evils which beset all close corporations, and to make the influence of Harvard national rather than sectional...