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...allowed to say a word as to who the persons are to whom the credit is due of having made the Junior Class Supper a success? There was a committee of ten appointed originally, but as this number was found too large, a special committee of three was selected from them to attend to the actual arrangements of the dinner. To these three gentlemen, Messrs. Buell, Blodgett, and Chase, the thanks of the Class, which have been so variously bestowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what a man is not. In an infinity we cannot use elimination; what is more to the point, when we are on a special subject, we must not generalize. As we have already said, the Harvard man has no distinctive characteristics in the sense that men of other colleges have. He is patriotic - in a degree. He is blase - in a degree. He is a man of one idea - with a few more added. "Nihil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PORTRAIT? | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...preparation for such an advanced course is to be got from the lower courses, owing to the strong sense of individuality which pervades the several members of the German department; each one working, not in accordance with a plan agreed upon by all, but in accordance with the imaginary special needs of his students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN GERMAN. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...have heard Special Students complain of the delay which they experience in getting their marks. While we admit that there are some of this class of students to whom their standing cannot be of the slightest interest, there are others who are deeply interested in their work, and who show that interest by constant application. It seems to us that instructors should find no difficulty in discovering who the latter are, and should take especial care to give them their marks at the time when they give them to regular students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Henri Laurent's Company in "Olivette." Special Matinee on Friday, April 8, with Boston Juvenile Opera Company in "Chimes of Normandy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »