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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Now that the midyears are approaching the reserved books in the library will be in greater demand than ever. It is to be deplored that there is seldom more than one copy of those books to which the various instructors most frequently refer. This fact, however, is aggravated by the carelessness or thoughtlessness of some students, who either leave the books they consult on the tables or-what is worse put them on a wrong shelf. Hence other men finding empty spaces where they expected to find books conclude that the reference books are in use. Greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 1/9/1884 | See Source »

...then leaving him to help himself as best he could. He often asked a question, especially if a visitor was in his classroom, merely to open the way for a joke or a sarcasm. He once passed a question about a peculiar Greek accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when one hopeless freshman replied that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SOPHOCLES. | 1/7/1884 | See Source »

...reasons for this may be various, but one of them undoubtedly is that Canton is a great seat of learning, and the literati of China have always been the most determined opponents of foreigners. It is at Canton, indeed, where the greatest examining University of China is to be found. A Chinese lad in the south of the empire, determining to be distinguished, has only to go to Canton to gain a reward, if he deserves it. Entering a great hall called the Hoktoi, where tables are provided for more than 3,000 candidates, he can sit down and take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SOPHOCLES. | 1/7/1884 | See Source »

There are about seventy-five men training for the various crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/5/1884 | See Source »

...services at your hospital, 100 per cent less than the regular practitioner charges; less than those your own graduates will have to charge on order to make a loving, or to keep on collegiate terms with other professional?" In proof that his question is founded on fact, he submits various figures going to show that the school is offering to work much cheaper that a professional could, which looks as if the school was "trying to run the veterinary profession of Boston and vicinity into the ground." Mr. Billings in stances the school belonging to the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD VETERINARY SCHOOL. | 1/5/1884 | See Source »

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