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To the man who passes his last year at College on the Yard, all the associations of Harvard will naturally revert in his mind to that historic place. When he remembers his college days, he will remember the Yard, the faces and scenes of the Yard, and not the newer...
Recently the editors of a well-known magazine compiled a list of college graduates who had made a notable success in the world. They asked these men to tell what studies had best trained them for future life. Stewart Edward White wrote in answer "What I studied in college I...
The history of Professor Pickering's scientific labors repeats to us again that with all our boasting of learning we are but playing with the ABC's of knowledge. Here was the man who established the first working laboratory in physics in the United States. It was necessary for him...
One misses, perhaps, something in the nature of the essay. What has become of the periodical slam at the Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the...
Nearly all of us can remember with what savage pride we read of the Pyrrhic victory of the British troops at Bunker Hill, or of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nor have the wounds occasioned by the Civil War been entirely healed; rash argument and unreasoning dissension still have...