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President Eliot will give a reception to members of the Law School next Tuesday evening...
...Boston Latin School Battalion will give an exhibition drill, Tuesday, February...
...roughness of the game of foot-ball often engages the attention of the English press, and the game is generally severely criticised by them. But the Illustrated London News says of it: "The game of foot-ball has been wisely approved by the almost unanimous verdict of English public-school men, masters, boys and 'old boys,' as the best of disciplinary sports and pastimes with a view to the improvement of the mind - that is to say, the will and spirit, which does not grow strong by book-learning - as much as to that of bodily strength and vigor...
...students to learn what best suits them - furnishes rather the model for Harvard to follow. Indeed, the tendencies of Harvard are in this direction, and we believe the time is not so very far distant when the students of Harvard will be treated as men and not as school-boys, and when the instructors will be relieved from the irksome police and schoolmaster duty now required of them, and left free to devote their entire attention to acquiring and imparting the best knowledge of their respective departments. When that time comes, the mischievous class system, with its silly notions...
...thereby incur the same blame Princeton once incurred. For it is beginning to be felt that possibly there are or soon will be better uses to which to apply the liberal endowments of her benefactors than even the finest and most satisfactory buildings. As soon as the new law school, the medical school and the physical laboratory shall have been completed, will Harvard have a need for further buildings by any means so pressing as for an increase in the number of and better endowments for her teaching force? When the college has an annual deficit...