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...need hardly refer to a recent article in the Advocate which laments the falling off of mathematical men and the growing popularity of the classics to corroborate this statement, but I would remark that the study of mathematics offers little to those who are not particularly qualified for it (except a discipline of the mind, which the analysis of the Latin Subjunctive supplies), while the study of Belles-Lettres gives a man that culture and intellectual scope which this age demands, even if it does not make him a poet or historian...
...others unfortunate, and given over to daily futile attempts at cleaning, which result, on the occupants' part, in open windows for several hours. We would not bring this subject up, for it is trite and an institution of long standing, but several complaints have so bitterly inveighed against recent carelessness that it seemed to merit mention. Under the present administration, if any, a change could be undertaken; and any change would be for the better...
SEVERAL articles in the recent issues of the Yale papers have argued very ably for some radical changes in the management and arrangements of the eight-oar races between Yale and Harvard. A review of the advised changes is given elsewhere, and states the main points succinctly; and boating-men will feel much interest in the theory, which is that of a graduate of some years' standing, who has studied carefully the English system in comparison with our own, and decides in favor of "turn-about races...
...recent meeting of the Weld Boat Club, W. P. Page, '77, was elected captain of the crew, and T. M. Sloane, '77, treasurer of the club...
AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation...