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...spoiled by a series of editorials on the name and reception of the paper. From these editorials we learn that Quip is "a girl," and from this infer that the central figure on the title page is a portrait of the fair daughter-in-law of Life. We think the editors should have adopted the name suggested in the last editorial, the Yale Brace, as indicating the decided need of the paper. The first picture (on page 5) is enough to spoil any paper, and the joke (?) attached reminds us in its lucidity of some of the recent editorials...
...increasing taste for "boating," as it is very advisedly termed-that is to say, of going in a boat-has led to the formation of a host of third, fourth and fifth rate clubs, as well as to an enormous amount of rowing in hired boats by people who think they would like to learn the art all by themselves. Now, rowing is, of all things, that which a man finds most impossible to learn by himself. There is nothing, perhaps, in which unaided practice is so certain to make a man develop a bad style. If any person doubts...
...should be filled by the most eminent scholar available. In all the struggles between the classics and the sciences. the importance of the study of English literature has been steadily on the increase in our various colleges. This is due of course, to many widely differing causes; but we think there is no influence so strongly at work now as the one voiced by Ex-Governor Chamberlain, that while there may be some dispute as to the relative values of earthen branches in a "liberal education," yet there can be no doubt that a knowledge of the works...
...course is to be revived this year under Doctor Royce. This course, in connection with the increased advantages in the way of the study of collection, offered in an advanced elocution elective by Mr. Jones, should do much to remove the reproach, that Harvard students can never speak or think before an audience. For those who wish to make a more extended study of the whole literature of the language, the courses in English literature given by Professor Hill will be extended to full courses. The present system of forensics, at present a farce, is also to be changed...
...realized. Our proximity to Boston, the traditional customs of some of the societies, and other influences were too strong to be overcome by a rush, and few men joined the society, except those who were already total abstainers. These unhappy conditions continue to such an extent, that, I think, a man who sees no harm to himself in a glass of wine or a mug of beer, should sacrifice his own pleasure for the sake of influencing by his example those who are, perhaps, sacrificing their chances for even respectable success in life. But this cannot be expected from more...