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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Your editorial of yesterday did justice to the merits of the English department. But, as I understand the matter, the strictures, made lately on that department, have been not on the increased opportunities and requirements in English composition, but on the lack of opportunity afforded for the study of English literature in general. The department is strong in its Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon courses, and in Anglo-Saxon and early English; but for the study of the mass of literature since the time of Chaucer, with the exception of the masters whom I have mentioned...
...cannot be too strongly urged. Such a course would not only help us to realise "the relation of what happens to-day with what has happened in the past, and to appreciate the relative importance of two newspaper articles with headings of equal prominence, but would help us to understand the bearing of to-days doings on the future. Everybody ought to know how to "keep up with the times," to know what events, political or otherwise, are the ones to give thought to - what events are to be taken as evidences of the world's progress, and what...
...made the boast that, while Harvard men were petitioning to have compulsory prayers abolished, the men at Yale were calling for an earlier honr for morning chapel services. This boast may seem to those, who know nothing of the matter, thoroughly justifiable; but it must seem to others, who understand the motives that prompt the movement, not so great a boast after all. The whole matter reaches a point of absurdity when it is known that the Yale sentiment was not after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been represented. We have been informed that quite as many...
Punctuation is still a lost art to a few society lights, thinks the Boston Beacon. An elderly lady who had invited a favorite nephew to spend New Year's day with her did not understand from his written apology that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven...
...understand that in one of the courses in Philosophy a large number of men are now at great inconvenience on account of the failure of the publishing house to furnish the number of text books required. This is doubly exasperating to those men who need books, from the fact that the publishers received ample notice before the fall term began. The Co-operative Society is in this instance not at all to blame, and the publishers only are responsible for the non-delivery of the promised books. Examinations are near at hand, and we can only offer our sympathy...