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Bargains in student chairs, window cushions, draperies, at Power's, Palmer street, corner Brattle. Go to him when you want any repairing done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

...secretary of the H. U. B. C. Dear Sir,-In consideration of the apparent want of accord and harmony between the members of the H. U. B. C. and its advisory committee of graduates, we herein enclose our respective resignations as members of such committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Letter of Resignation. | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

...Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness. For us they are the objects of research and criticism. It would be absurd to educate our boys as if they belonged to the age of the humanists. What we want above all is to make them understand their own world, the people of which they are a part, the life of nature about them, the men among whom they have to make their way. These are the indispensable parts of modern education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Greek Question Again. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

...being instructed by a man, who if he does good work, does it with the view of standing high in educational circles, rather than of benefiting those under his charge. The impressions of both are usually equally false, but they will exist just as long as there is a want of sympathy between them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/16/1884 | See Source »

...decided improvement in the speaking at the competition for the Boylston prizes in May. Actual practice, and a good deal of it, is the great secret of success in all kinds of public speaking. The Shakspere Club furnishes such opportunities to its members, and thereby fills a long felt want in the study of elocution at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1884 | See Source »