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...colleges of the north is well shown in a letter to the current Nation, in which the writer gives a statement of the condition of the English department in southern colleges, To us the time and money spent upon English in these less favored institutions of learning will undoubtedly seem small, but in proportion to the money and means at their disposal, it is undoubtedly by no means as small as would appear at first sight. Often, however, the study of English, from a lack of funds, has to be associated with the study of some other language or branch...
...Oxford is interesting to me as one of the two centres of English culture, and as I wander in these gardens and look at these time-warn and ivy-covered walls and towers, I seem to be nearer, by a little, at least, to the men who have gone out from these classic shades. Here I am shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke...
...does not seem to me that the lately suggested plan of counting points for the other eleven, if a man makes a "foul" or "off-side" play is a good one. It would make men want their opponents to play "off-side," and so would induce them to irritate their opponents into unfair plays by which their own side would score. I think that anyone will admit that the present rules would be strict enough, if it were possible for the referee to watch every man, and see every "foul" and "off-side" play. It seems to me that...
...periodical item in which is set forth the fact that editorial life at Cambridge is made bright and happy by exemption from the theme and forensic work which is exacted from his less fortunate undergraduate brethren. But is it not, after all, a pleasing little fiction? What can seem more natural than that the student who, from his position on a paper, is obliged to do tenfold the amount of writing required from his more fortunate fellows, should have his labors lightened somewhat by a regulation of this nature...
...part of the students. The approaching winter, with its promise of virtually opening the doors of Gore Hall, while the students are otherwise engaged, and of closing them before the students are disengaged, is well calculated to prove a dreary season, in more than one respect. It does not seem possible that any reasonable argument against the lighting of the library could be presented. While it is certain that no institution of learning on the continent possesses a library equal to that of Harvard, it is probable that no college library presents so few inducements to its patronage...