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...steadily in view, and the course of lectures proved to be one of the most instructive and exhaustive that could be expected. Several prominent authors were considered, and the students exhibited great interest in the work of the course. The work of the second half year has struck a rock in the person of "Old Dr. Johnson." For there weeks the course has been restricted to a microscopic, hypercritical examination of the "Vanity of Human Wishes." When it is remembered that the course meets but once a week, the expenditure of valuable time can be realized. English VII. is essentially...
...explorations of the coast of eastern Massachusetts anterior to the coming of the Pilgrims, and the voyage of the Mayflower, as well as the landing at Plymouth, and the establishment of the colony there. Apropos of the landing, Mr. Deane gave an interesting sketch, how the tradition about Plymouth Rock was handed down. The tradition, it seems, first found its way into print in 1774 through the Old Colony Society of Plymouth. The society got the story from a centenarian who was then in the neighborhood. This man, in turn, got it from an intimate of his, a centenarian...
...with men who as it is but rarely enter its doors. It is said that constant dropping will in the end wear away a stone, but if the amount of communications, editorials and special articles written on this subject were to be printed altogether we are sure that the rock of opposition would melt away like mist before their formidable array. The experiment is worth trying for one year at least, and then it could not be said (?) that Harvard college was behindhand in the march of college improvements...
...come up to some of the practice work and was decidedly loose at times. Poor tackling, several muffs by the backs and poor blocking were the noticeable errors in the play of our eleven. The Pennsylvania rush line on the other hand, stood as firm as a rock and got through much better than our team. Some of the individual play of our men was good, notably the fine tackling of Adams and Kimball, the way in which Gilman got the ball in a crowd and one or two rushes by Wesselhoeft. Holden had but little given...
...Little Rock University a sophomore has been fined two dollars for kissing a coed...