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...fairly apparent that a subject which can be adequately treated in a sheaf of notes is out of place in a college curriculum. A great deal of information, even the white-washing diploma, can be obtained from the correspondence schools. If information is all that is wanted, colleges are unnecessary...
...full appreciation of the size and complexity of the University, we must look over the sheaf of annual reports (too voluminous to be printed here) presented to the Board of Overseers at its last meeting. Here we find the statements of thirty-four separate official departments, from that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to that of the Medical School Bureau of Appointments. It would be well for those who know only their own department, or at the most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University...
...month when we are preparing to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of his birth. It was doubtless the scarcity of biographical details that so long kept the field free for the present biographer; and, despite Mr. Shelley's careful gleaning, we have here still but a slender sheaf of facts. To make a volume of some three hundred pages it has been necessary to eke it out with much matter descriptive of times of our founder, and the places in which he lived, and to indulge freely in speculation. The book might, indeed, be fairly called, "A Probable Biography...
...held last night, the following twenty men spoke: H. H. Hawkins '99, P. K. Walcott L. S., S. W. Mollow '99, R. H. Morrison '99, H. F. Wardwell '98, A. Mehlinger '99, B. Kaufman 1900 G. Bowers 1900, R. S. Warner '98, F. B. Ufford L. S., C. M. Sheaf '98, G. A. Goodridge '99, E. S. Wise '99, R. R. Kent 1900, W. MacIntyre '98, W. C. Price L. S., G. C. Beals '98, E. F. Pitman 1L., W. E. Nichols '99, S. Bowers...
Besides the above mentioned articles, there is a sheaf of delightful Christmas stories, - "The Christmas Shadrach," by Frank R. Stockton; "A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Wulfy; A Waif," a Christmas sketch from life by Miss Vida D. Scudder, and "The Rapture of Hetty," by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the last dealing with a Christmas dance on the frontier, and a number of general articles. The poetry of the number is of a high order...