Word: seconde
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Harvard Register for February was received yesterday. The second number is in all respects an improvement on the first. Nearly all the articles have a general interest even for students, and some are not without a special interest, as, for example, Dr Peabody's college customs fifty years ago, and President Eliot's treatment of the subject of scholarship, in which open scholarships are strongly opposed and the present system commended. Mr. Arthur Gilman gives the origin of the Annex, and Professor N. S. Shaler a short account of the Natural History Society, while Dr. D. A. Sargent replies...
...second place, what would be saved to study? Very few men pass Saturday night at their desks; and it is safe to say that home influences are as beneficial as those of the city. The natural tendency to relaxation at the end of the week is inevitable, and, in our opinion, desirable. Granted that there is a loss of hours by this weekly absence, is there not a proportionate gain in earnestness and application? Surely a change of scene does not weaken mental powers...
...Second, A late edition will be issued at nine in the evening, in order to publish, for the information of all whom it may concern, a list of the students who have gone to Boston to spend the evening. Their names will be easily procured from car-conductors, hackmen, pocos, and other trustworthy sources...
...second University Concert, which took place last evening, was deserving of a much larger audience than was in the theatre to enjoy it. That concerts of such quality and so convenient of access should be so miserably supported is a most humiliating disgrace to the College and the Cambridge public. The programme was as rich in variety as it was strong in single numbers, the most prominent feature being the posthumous Symphony of Goetz. It is a most striking and original work, emphatically remarkable when we consider that the composer died at thirty-six years of age, and that this...