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...practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve out recreation and enjoyment as the alternative and the reward of our professional toil. Now, the entire tone and character of this life outside the profession are profoundly dependent on the compass of our early studies. He that leaves...
...that will do all this. It is not a scrape pass; it is not decent mediocrity with a lanquid interest. It is a fair and even attention throughout, supplemented by auxiliaries to the class work. It is such a hold of the leading subjects, such a mastery of the various alphabets, as will make future references intelligible, and a continuation of the study possible...
...treasurer towards the fund for retiring allowances, and also towards the permanent observatory fund; besides other minor matters of interest. The overseers have been agitated by the question of the restriction of "drunkenness upon the campus at commencement." Under "University Notes," Librarian Sibley's Harvard Necrology is continued, various correction and additions up to date being included in the correct list. The death of Edward Oakes, a graduate of the class of 1679, is now first recorded. The most noted name among Harvard's dead is that of Josiah Quincy, '21. The usual minute and scholarly list of accessions...
...correspondent in the Yale News advocates the hiring of a trainer at that college. He presents a number of arguments in favor of a professional trainer, all of which have been discussed over and over again in various college papers. The only importance of the letter is that it shows the different directions in which athletics, at the two leading colleges, are tending. While Harvard is struggling hard to exclude every trace of professionalism from her sports, Yale seems to steadily encourage its introduction into her athletics. The letter incidentally makes a mis-statement in saying that Harvard, at present...
Last week's Congregationalist gives tables showing the number of professing Christians in various colleges. Amherst, according to this authority, leads the list, with Oberlin second and Harvard last...