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...withdrawal of Mr. M. H. Cushing, '83, from the Law School to enter the city force of the Boston Globe adds one more to the rapidly increasing list of recent graduates of Harvard who have taken up the profession of journalism. Mr. Cushing has been doing the Harvard work for the Globe during the past year and makes the sixth Harvard man on the Globe force, Hills, '80, Burton, '82, and Hooke, Heilbron and Sullivan of '83 being the others. Mr. Wingate, '83, of the Boston Journal, Bolles, L. S., and Fuller, '82, of the Advertiser, Chase...
...their strength and nerve without being stimulated to do so by the workings of the present system. This would be like arguing that men of great mental gifts either do not need an education, or would get an education without any opportunities being provided for this purpose in a school or college system- a proposition which, however true in exceptional cases, taken as a general statement no argument is required to prove absurd. Men of muscle do need exercise. The men who suffer most from the confinement of student-life are the men of vigorous bodies. Many of them, without...
...elements are compressed into a very few lectures, and the student is left to fill in the outlines by private study. An American will find himself somewhat at a disadvantage, when he listens to Latin and Greek citations, unless he has had the advantage of a good grammar-school training; for he will find that he goes back to this, rather than to his college work...
...school tug of war team defeated Harvard '84, but was in turn pulled by the "Tech" team...
...first event of interest to Harvard men was the middleweight tug-of-war. For this, the Law-School team, the '84 team, and a technical team were entered. It seemed in this as if fickle fortune was against us all through. First our two teams were drawn against each other, while the Tech. men, having a bye, looked on and got points on the style of their future opponent. At the drop the law men let '84 have about one-half inch, but Easton came down with bent knees so that one quick heave sent the rope well over...