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At this point of affairs some one knocked at the door. This gave the youthful part of the Faculty an opportunity of giving vent to their feelings in the touching song, "Stop that knocking at the door." After having sung this with the customary stamping on the floor, the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCOUNT OF A FACULTY MEETING. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

THE 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

AT the present time, when so much is being said about the department of Oratory and Rhetoric in our own College, and an effort is being made to improve the condition of our literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUCCESSFUL DEBATING-CLUB. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

Nov. 15 - 18, 1873. - Call from old-time Freshman friend; nearly bursting with news; however, does not burst. Wants us to go to Cuba with him in Uncle's blockade runner; interpreter needed; six weeks of Spanish verbs ought to be good enough for Cuba; we assent. Question arises about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

'74 had 162 members. 16 failed to attain 70 per cent in a single study of the ten. 14 attained 70 per cent or over in one study, 24 in two, 17 in three, 5 in four, 13 in five, 6 in six, 17 in seven, 20 in eight, 9...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

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