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The French department of the college has afforded many opportunities to the students at large to become acquainted, through the agreeable medium of evening readings with the standard works of French literature. We are sure that an effort to do something similar on the part of the German department would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1886 | See Source »

A writer in the last number of the Advocate urges that something be done to cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1886 | See Source »

The reason of this is, that men confound what they would like to be with what they ought to be. The great fear is that the pursuit they have chosen will in the future prove "uncongenial." But it is necessarily "uncongenial" sometimes to do the right thing in any sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

In a recent discussion between a junior and sophomore as to whether New York or Boston was founded first, the junior calmly asserted that the latter city was settled in "thirteen hundred and something." Being reminded that the continent was not discovered until 1492, he wilted.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/8/1886 | See Source »

But the Tribune casually brings up another matter that is of far more concern to us, and, as we believe, to the public at large. When Cambridge horses go about "clad in airy gymnasium costume," and that, too, on North Avenue, certainly something ought to be done!

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1886 | See Source »