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Now, for a beginning of the dissertation pick out a brilliant passage from your Sophomore themes. This will attract attention; and if it seem abrupt, the objection against abrupt beginnings is not well founded. [See Hill's Rhet., Book II. Chap. VI.] A similar quotation somewhat longer and, if possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDOIN PRIZES MADE EASY. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

Take care to choose a good pseudonyme. Emerson once won a Bowdoin prize, signing himself "A Son of New England"; but times have changed, and that would be thought shockingly provincial. Something which would hint in a noncommittal way of a gift to the College in future years would be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDOIN PRIZES MADE EASY. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

SEVERAL rooms are still to be had at the Bursar's office.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

THOUGH we all know that the making up of the Tabular View is a matter of much difficulty, and that conflicts between desirable courses is inevitable, yet there was one circumstance that I noticed in making up my elective list, which looked like design and not necessity, and that was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

AGAIN the annual duty devolves upon us of recording the going of the old class and the coming of the new; again we are reminded of the mutability of college life, its aims, its pleasures, and its end; and again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/27/1878 | See Source »