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...gentleman asked, seemingly in jest, "Well, what do you want now? The President replied in the same tone, "A new Law School." A few days after the President received an invitation to lunch. After taking lunch alone with his host, they sat talking about general college matters until the subject of the Law School was brought up. When asked what amount would be needed for the new building, the President named one hundred thousand. His host excused himself for a moment, and soon returned to the room with papers which gave "one hundred thousand dollars to Harvard University...
...Miscellany, - captious and undignified in manner, engaged in quarrelling with each other, discourteous in the extreme toward other colleges. The Era has disgraced itself in its attack upon Oberlin, whose Review, by the way, is very readable and sensibly written. . . And this brings us to the general subject of our Western exchanges, which we have not room at present to mention severally, but which are in the main free from vulgarity, if at times crude and hasty. . . Returning eastward, we find the Princetonian, which has improved very much, of late, in the way of contributed articles. Its editorial articles have...
...each of them has the right to do as he wishes in regard to what and how many books he will reserve, and is under no obligation to reserve any if he thinks it unnecessary. But when this spirit is carried farther, and all books bearing on a certain subject, in which there is to be an examination, are removed by the instructor from the Library a day or two before that examination, there is a manifest blunder committed. The removal of the books will not prevent the students from getting others like them elsewhere, if they wish...
...tendency to give too long examinations is quite as evident this year as it has ever been. The subject is a very old one, but the annoyance is so great that the only way to correct it eventually, seems to be to speak of it periodically. Examinations can never be a very perfect test of what a man knows; hence, a few questions answered well are, in the majority of cases, a much better test than a number answered hurriedly. It is an impossibility, for instance, to do justice to fifteen questions, "and write as fully...
...friend George ever fell in love with Alice Hadden is - well, inexplicable. His is one of those swift-dividing intellects that seem perpetually to hover about the line that sunders reason and madness, subject to strange dreams and fancies, imaginative to an unhealthy degree. And she was whole matter-of-fact and commonplace, pretty enough, but - pah! what is such a woman when she grows old? But George was undoubtedly, uncompromisingly in love. And so matters came about that they were engaged to be married...