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...SWEET HOLMES![Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has resigned the chair of anatomy at Harvard University...
...Sweet, plaintive tunes, that oft'times make...
...English writer says, concerning the influence of the women's colleges at Oxford and Cambridge: "The sweet 'girl-graduate,' flourishing as that race appears to be, has not yet so fully taken possession of our universities as to render feminine society and girlish voices every-day adjuncts of college life; and perhaps their very rarity in those monastic precincts goes far to increase the charm which their presence undoubtedly adds to the otherwise sombre surroundings...
...last number the Miscellany discusses the proposition for an Intercollegiate Press Association, and in its discussion displays its usual acuteness and "sweet reasonableness," surpassing in these respects any of the suggestions in the matter previously advanced by any of the original advocates of the scheme. The suggestions it makes are certainly novel, but well worthy of consideration. The objects of the association, it says, it understands would be as follows: "First, the elevation of the tone of college journalism, not only by the mental friction among the magazines and papers enlisted in the association from the first...
...ultimate result following in the line of progress that Harvard may in the course of time be forced to yield to the pressure from without, and adopt this reform. That such an event is in the near future we do not believe, and it is possible that the "sweet reasonableness of waiting" for this change may, after all, find itself in the pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That co-education does (perhaps very properly) assert its existence at other colleges is not an argument for its adoption at all - at Harvard...