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March 1. Professor William James, "Recent Investigations on the Brain...
...recent dinner held in New York in honor of Adam Smith's Work, "The Wealth of Nations," has excited considerable comment, and has aroused an interest in the subject which we hope will bear its fruits. The matter comes home to us in view of the recent withdrawal of Political Economy from the list of required studies...
...RECENT letters from graduates indicate that the interest in our boating matters, manifested by them at the time of our withdrawal from the Association, has in no wise declined, and is seeking to so express itself as to best improve our chances of success. A few words as to our present condition, and the quarter in which we most need outside help, may serve to direct this interest where it will do the most good...
...World, in a recent editorial, proposes a scheme which, could it be carried out, would put new life into athletics at Harvard. Several plans for surmounting the difficulties in the way of the North Pole have lately been laid before Congress. Of these, the most feasible seems to be that of Captain Howgate, who proposes "to establish a colony at eighty degrees north latitude, and from that point push forward toward the Pole by sledging expeditions." The scheme of the World is as follows...
...sided as business men of fifty years' standing. Brown, who was something of an athlete, could tell me a little about the nine, and the crew, and that sort of thing; but there his information ended. Stiggs, a somewhat different character, confined his thoughts and his talk to recent philological discoveries, and to certain occult events in mediaeval history. And the one man who seemed to have a little general information turned out to be the editor of a paper, so that, after all, he was talking shop...