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...musical turn need not again be reminded how little their music is appreciated during the grind for the mid-years...
...divine Oscar will soon be wafted to Boston, and then we shall see whether the cultured and literary inhabitants of "Modern Athens" burn and are utterly consumed with the fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform...
...those who ask our aid for this we beg leave to say that last year you let us whistle for what we wanted, and this year we shall transfer the toot to your hands. and shall sit still listening to the mournful strains which it now becomes your turn to give forth. Ta-ta, Intercollegiate-Press-Associationists, the Acta is not anxious to experience any more frigidity of atmosphere...
While Rev. Joseph Cook was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary he acquired the sobriquet of "Bucephalus" from the following circumstance: He was noted for using very flowery language. Taking his turn one Sunday in preaching before the students, as was their wont, he used the phrase, "Like the half-starved and famished bucephalus would ruminate among the verdant clover, so will our famished souls enjoy the ethereal mansions...
Experience during a period of ten years with the elective system, shows that the system does not tend to bring about the extinction of the traditional studies called liberal. The scientific turn of mind is comparatively rare among the young men who enter the college, a large majority of the students preferring languages, metaphysics, history, and political science, to mathematics, physics, zoology, and botany. Every extension of the system has been a gain to the individual student, to the college, and to every interest of education and learning; and the time is not far distant when the few subjects still...