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...TUESDAY.Certain Authors of the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries. Special subject: Sir Walter Scott. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...
...chief amusements have been the theatre and the opera. Society, with its frivolous tendencies, has presented few charms to me. Partly from bashfulness, partly from misogynism, I have always taken special care to avoid all feminine society. But of Salvini and Booth, Januschausky and Margaret Mather, I think I should never tire; while I have been carried away with enthusiasm at the high notes of Sembrich...
...year I was a member of the Institute of 1770. In my senior year of the Hasty Pudding Club. I was for a short time an editor of the ill-fated Echo. I have also been a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and O. K., and, among the special societies, of the St. Paul's, Art Club, Historical Society, and Harvard Union, having spoken occasionally in the last named society. While in the Institute I was secretary of the society for part of my term, and was also librarian of the St. Paul's in freshman year...
...evils already commented on are general. There are other so-called evils which are special-some peculiar to one kind of athletics, but not belonging to the others. One of these, charged against base-ball, is that the game brings the students into contact with "professionals." Whatever may be the extent of the evil in other colleges, at Yale it has not proved to be so great as to call for faculty interference, or even to excite apprehension. All the evils, real or imaginary, connected with ball playing, are reduced to a minimum when the students meet "professionals." They meet...
Among the difficulties met by the American, the following may be mentioned. The language is, of course, the main one, but six months of honest hard work will overcome this in nearly every case, and in some special branches enough can be gained in four to answer all practical purposes. The script is peculiar and must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this...