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...Wilde is not entirely without humor, as his Boston Music Hall audience knows; and therefore it may not be altogether hoping a hopeless hope to hope that, if he really is in earnest and is serious in his "movement," he may in time be brought to see the absurdity of his position in this country, and to appreciate the fact that he is really doing more harm than good to the cause he professes to have at heart. Our hopes in this way are brightened by some recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein...
...rush" between Yale sophomores and freshmen many students were injured. The sophomores took canes from the freshmen, who went in a body to attack their opponents. They were warmly received, and the affair became so serious that a squad of policemen had to be summoned...
...undergraduates upon the scheme and scope of the various courses, or that a descriptive circular be distributed to students, explaining the same things and giving tentative or provisional groupings of courses advised for certain supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice upon the subject. We know, of course, that it is written...
...serious faults may be found in the system of instruction in French at Harvard. In the first instance, the student is obliged to commit to memory an excessive amount of selections that are neither profitable nor interesting. In every French course we find some such task set, the merit of which is extremely dubious. The reason given is that by these means a knowledge of the language may be ingrained in the memory and the mind thus made more retentive of the forms of good style. But if this is the end desired, why not choose the selections with...
Considerable amusement was furnished yesterday afternoon by the upsetting of a sleigh in one of the snow banks near Beck. It contained two ladies, but no serious damage was done...