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...which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion, as a blunder that the greatest scholar might make in haste, and that the veriest school-boy might detect at his leisure. But all the time, while piloting Mr. Allen with great skill, as he thinks, into Charybdis, he has not noticed Scylla picking off some of his choicest recruits. Or, to speak in a way he cannot fail to understand, he has himself made various...
...members of the Law School at a recent meeting voted that Seniors in the academic department of the College be admitted to the privileges of discussion in the Harvard Assembly...
...majority have the greatest difficulty in meeting their crews' expenses. In fact, the latter have joined the Association, and remain in it, for the reason that membership is now accepted as a sort of certificate of character, and is deemed the distinguishing mark between a college and a high school. The membership of the Association is not, I believe, limited by its constitution, and there is no reason why it should not continue to increase to any extent whatever; and in truth any refusal on the part of the present members to admit new colleges is eminently unjust, since...
...BROOKS SCHOOL, Cleveland, which promises to rival Exeter and the Boston Latin, dedicated its new school-building, December I, on which occasion Rev. Phillips Brooks delivered an address, and a letter from President Eliot was read. The school prepares for Harvard and Yale. The master is White, Harvard '70, and the assistants, Nash, Harvard '68; Roberts, Harvard '74; and Harding, Yale...
...wine-press is counted among the Lost Arts, the crack of doom, or some other indefinitely distant period. Yet we trust the men who have caused this noise have done so unwittingly, and will show the good sense so peculiar to a Harvard undergraduate by abstaining from this school-boy habit of coming home yelling...