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Upon graduating, he entered the Scientific School, and also taught in his father's school for girls, which was opened in the autumn of '55. This task of a handsome young fellow instructing a lot of girls who were just beginning to live was embarrassing no doubt, but he got through that trial well. After graduating from the Scientific School, he entered the coast survey, and presently turned up in California, where he lived for some time. He had originally meant to be a civil engineer and to go onto some of the railroads, thinking the west a great field...
This case could be easily remedied if the captain of each class crew saw to it that at least one crew represented his class on the river every day, and this would not be a difficult task, in view of the number of men waiting for a chance...
...fortunate critic who has so pleasant a task as the reviewer of the March Illustrated. The articles are varied, the subjects are well chosen, the writers are interesting, and the food for thought abundant and substantial...
...meet those of Yale and Princeton. This system did not prove very successful last season, as the home teams in each case won the negative side of the question, and it has not yet been accepted as a permanent institution. Its advantages are that it makes less difficult the task of the unenviable second team, because it is unnecessary for the latter to prepare so laboriously the opposite side of the question, and that it gives each first team the practice of meeting the varying attack of two other teams. Furthermore, it gives an opportunity for training more...
President Lowell, the speaker of the evening, pointed out that all colleges were but a means to an end; namely, the uplift of the nation and of mankind. Friendship among them is growing as they realize the unity of their task. The best university is that which strives to correct its faults and this the public will in the end appreciate...