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...Natural History Society is again making an attempt to shake off the lethargy to which it has been a prey for many years. Once a society of great activity and usefulness, it has in recent years almost faded out of the public notice, except for an occasional lecture delivered under its auspices. We hope that this time the effort to improve itself will be a real one and not quite as futile as many of those feeble attempts to renewed action made during our recollection. The society has the opportunity of making itself very useful in advancing the study...
...such a crew would be comparatively slight. The necessary expenses would be somewhere between $400 and $500, and surely such a sum could easily be raised for the purpose. The objection that shall immediately be made to sending a crew, is that there would not be time to shake a four together after the Yale race, and that any other crew would not be representative. But the material required for an eight-oared race of four miles, or a four-oared race of a mile and a half, is generally admitted to be of so completely different a character...
...peculiar Greek accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when one hopeless freshman replied that he did not know, he answered: "That is right; nobody knows." These anecdotes, with a thousand others, both historical and mythical, are very characteristic of his style of teaching, which did not always follow strictly scientific methods...
...with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned universe. Prof. Beers, of Yale, also we learn is writing stories for the Century and the Continent; and last of all it is reported that a Columbia professor has received an offer to become the regular writer of plays for the Madison Square Theatre...
...which induced them to take such a position, have been the occasion of much indignation and complaint throughout the college. If the faculty were influenced largely by the belief that the fence would be objectionable to the majority of the students, the opinions thus far expressed must tend to shake their confidence in the soundness of the conclusion reached by them. We have yet to hear of any expression of opinion from the college which is favorable to the action of the faculty. We hope that this fact will be well considered by the faculty and that they will reconsider...