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...remark has often been made, that many graduates of Harvard, despite the instruction in Rhetoric, and the number of required themes and forensics, are unable to write a respectably good letter; meaning, thereby, one that is correct in grammar, spelling, and expression. That this is the case is not at all improbable, as men receive their degree on the average mark in all the studies; and thus a very low mark in a certain study, if accompanied by a high one in some other branch, does not preclude a degree...
...committee proceed to remark on the pleasing increase of interest in metaphysics and psychology, and pay a deserved compliment to the Alford Professor, whose gentlemanly, kind, and interesting conduct of recitations in the "vast and elevated regions of studies confided to him" is remarked by all who have the good-fortune to be his pupils...
...architectural splendors which beautify our Yard. They noticed, in University, "the lower flights of stairs, the steps of the second run of which are built into the wall about two feet, and project therefrom about five, without any support at the outer end." The Spectrum doubtless makes this remark in all kindness, but we confess to a self-reproachful twinge. Have we not mounted that "run" thousands of times, and never thought about their projection, but only that each step was bringing us to hopeless "dead" or glorious "rush"? Graceful Holworthy and airy Hollis and Stoughton were passed by without...
...organization, and which we saw centralized in the University, is divided into three branches or degrees. The first degree is called Primary instruction, and includes the communale schools; the second, Secondary instruction, embraces the Colleges and Lyceums; and the third, the Superior instruction, is given in the Faculties. Remark that I do not speak of education in general. In point of fact, you must not suppose that at the side of this instruction, given and entirely controlled by the state, there exist no other schools and institutions, under the name of free, founded, directed, and maintained by corporations or private...
...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...