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...what might be delivered in ten or fifteen minutes, and doing all this in order to give the instructor the impression that the lecturer is working night and day on his course, and deserves his good-will, - deliberate "swiping." The third method is little more than a common school-boy recitation, and needs no comment...
...some young men do remain and take postgraduate courses, do they not? There is young X., who did not graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course...
...then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard with the intention of doing fairly well, of getting what knowledge and experience I could conveniently in three or four years, and of finishing off my school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder that my course does not seem entirely satisfactory. I have had a rather good time; but I am anxious now to go to some place where I shall...
...Harvard Manual is the name of a pamphlet printed in Springfield, containing a brief history of the College, a manual of the Law School, and a directory of the undergraduates and law students. It is for sale at Sever...
...Columbia's request Harvard agreed that the degrees C. E. and M. E., given at the Columbia School of Mines, be regarded as equivalent to the degree B. S. given at our Scientific School. Columbia, however, further desired, under plea of inferiority in point of numbers, to include among men eligible for her crew members of the Schools of Law and Medicine who were graduates neither of Columbia nor of any other college. Harvard thought that such an exception to the rule adopted by Yale and herself looked toward including in the crews a class of oarsmen whom...