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...though the blasts of the north-wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MEMENTO. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...must be remembered, too, that though a student in College may elect several courses in Greek and Latin, he is limited to but one in French and German each. An exception, however, was made in favor of those absent last year by allowing them to substitute a modern language for anticipated Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A YEAR OUT OF COLLEGE. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

Conversing on literary matters, he remarked that though he had often attempted to read Milton's Paradise Lost he could not endure it. Shakespeare he liked exceedingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

...interest to those suggestions of future changes which he is sure will, in most cases, be realized. It is gratifying, therefore, to find that one of the first things noticed is the unsatisfactory condition of the Gymnasium and its inadequacy to the wants of the University. The remedy proposed, though the best perhaps that is available, is, however, a sorry one. "As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable, instead of undertaking to alter the present structure, to erect a plain wooden building, extensible in any direction, for a Gymnasium and Bowling-alleys, and to convert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENTS REPORT. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

...precious examples of brave devotion to country, truth, and duty, it is a place to be proud of and to become attached to, - a place around which in successive generations pleasant associations and inspiring memories will gather, - a place to exert upon the opening mind of youth a wholesome though unnoticed influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENTS REPORT. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »