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...river is free from ice, and the floats at the boat-house will be in place the beginning of next week...
...grow. I chose the latter alternative. But, as every one knows, the most critical and unsatisfactory period in the growth of a mustache is from the time when it first makes its appearance till it has reached about an inch in length. At the end of the third week mine had reached more than half an inch, and I began to feel somewhat relieved, when suddenly I received an invitation to a grand evening party. Of course I could n't go with a half-grown mustache, so it had to come...
...last the royal road to learning had been found. Most of our readers in Cambridge have already heard of the great increase in our facilities for learning which the kindness of our instructors proposes to offer next year. It is intended that, on two or three evenings of the week, the instructors in the various languages shall hold readings, like those we have at present by Professor Child and Professor Palmer, so arranged that in the course of four years every undergraduate may, without undertaking any extra work, be able to become acquainted with the writings of the best authors...
...establishing next year two more courses in Art. The History of Art will probably be continued in a higher course under Mr. Norton, and a second and higher course in the principles of Drawing will be established. What is now Art I. will continue to devote an hour a week to Ruskin's "Modern Painters" and four hours to drawing, while the higher course will take up as text-books other works of Ruskin, probably Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses," and possibly the "Treatise on Art," by Leonardo da Vinci...
HARVARD seems to have been thinking of the advantages of a cram week. It has existed here for years, and has proved itself a useful respite from the hard work of the latter end of the term; and we do not think it so great an incentive to "cramming" as some would suppose, for we know from experience that very moderate study during that time is followed by better examinations than indiscriminate "boning." - Acta Columbiana...