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While the students have the advantage of extra lectures delivered during the college year by the instructors, or by gentlemen invited to lecture, upon certain subjects, the subject of music is neglected. It is somewhat singular that the talent at hand does not volunteer lectures or recitals of music. A large number of students able to appreciate good music have but few chances to hear it during the college term, and one or two organ or piano recitals would be greatly appreciated by them. Moreover, many works of the old composers, especially Bach and Handel, are never heard nowadays...
...called it, did not intend to have a brilliant exhibition, but a place for serious labor and study. And the great enterprize called into existence in 1860 by Louis Agassiz, has now been nearly completed, according to the ideas of the father, by the energy and the organizing talent of the son. Over three hundred thousand dollars were subscribed in a short time, when Louis Agassiz came to America, and announced a plan for the erection of his museum. A whole school of young zoologists grew up at Cambridge. Collections of all kinds were bought...
...obviously an advantage for the chorister if he can have plenty of songs from which to choose and the members of eighty-four should see to it that their class song is the best that can be produced, and, in every respect worthy of a class in which poetic talent has not been wanting...
...indirectly, by continuing a member of the club. And when we see an athlete doing pretty much the same thing on the cinder path, the conviction grows upon us that he profits indirectly from gate money competition, or otherwise benefits by his pursuit of athletic exercises. The whole talent of the club which possesses one of these shining amateur lights is devoted to bush beating. Brains are racked to discover new methods to evade the law. the farce has gone on about long enough. If the amateur definition is too strict let it be made more elastic. But while...
...greatest importance to be able to put his thoughts, when occasion requires, into good form. Now there are but few men who can do this without a good deal of practice. And the college papers afford just this opportunity, an opportunity for the most varied kind of talent-humorous articles in the Lampoon, stories in the Advocate, and general articles and expressions of opinion in the HERALD-CRIMSON. All the instructors in rhetoric unite in recommending this means of exercise for the mind, and advise all the students to take advantage of it. Then let there be a stop from...