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IT has been the practice of some students, when they found that a book which they wanted had been engaged for the night, to take the book from the Library without getting it charged. In the morning it would be brought back and put in its place as stealthily as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

At Harvard College an elective course is offered in Political Economy, but it is made so difficult, and goes into details to such an extent, as to greatly diminish the number of those who take advantage of it. What is wanted is not an advanced course for the few, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE WEALTH OF NATIONS." | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

For five decades the mat was passed from one occupant of the room to the succeeding one, until the written record began to read like a chapter in the Old Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TRANSMITTENDUM. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

Neither of these classes have any time to spare to think of their behavior. As long as they do nothing downright indecent they are contented; and I am sorry to say that the world is very apt to be contented too. At the same time, as somebody or other said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

The captain requests us to say that more candidates are wanted, and any one who has a desire to play ball next spring should present himself now at the gymnasium.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NINE. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »