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...miss the opportunity of taking the lead among the colleges in introducing this innovation. Some even go so far as to take exceptions to the implication that the catalogue of men who have received degrees from Harvard is printed in Latin, and assert that the language used is a sort of mongrel composed of English and Latin. If we cannot have pure Latin we can at least have pure English. In English there would also be a uniformity which is at present sadly lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums...
...that the class races are over and settled, it behooves us to take from them one important lesson. It has always been understood that the class crews were simply a sort of preparatory school for training university oarsmen, and that their whole existence was for this end. When, therefore, a crew decides to row an entirely different stroke than that which the university employs, it is necessary to ask whether such a step does not constitute a dangerous precedent for future crews. While it may be held to be still an open question as to whether the fast stroke...
Under this state of affairs it was but natural that some remedy should be sought. President White finds it in the student society hall, that sort of link between dormitory and boardinghouse. Such a house tends to take those who live in it out of the category of boys and place them in the category of men. "In such buildings as these, the student has a personal interest in his breeding; he is responsible for it, and instead of diminishing its value, he would add to it in more ways than...
...reader. No poetry is so easy to write as this ; no poetry is so utterly worthless when written. The most remarkable verse we have met, one which expresses the feelings the sea stirred up in the poet, and in which the author seems to be in a sort of ecstasy of grief and woe while giving one the impression that he was "born tired," is the following...
...with a mixed sort of feeling that one listens to the following shriek from the sepulchre. One scarcely knows whether to laugh, or to merely pity the writer...