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...floats were put out last week, and boating has begun again...
...extra first-year honor section in Sanscrit. For the Sophomores the study selected as most important was Rhetoric. The same division into five languages was to be resorted to, and, besides the use of text-books, each Sophomore should be required to write, on an average, three themes a week. For the more mature Juniors an aesthetical course was designated, namely, a course in music. It was proposed to take Memorial Hall, and rent one hundred and fifty Chickering pianos, to be arranged in rows around the hall. The exercises on the pianos were to take up the whole forenoon...
...Yale Courant of this week compliments our Harvard poets in a style their modesty will not suffer us to quote; but we are surprised our Yale friends can have any doubt as to the locality of the Pierian Spring from which they draw their inspiration. It is a well-known fact that the great poets of all ages have been poor; and have been driven to the Muses by starvation. Nothing is so conducive to poetic thoughts as an empty stomach; genius becomes more active and more ethereal at the absence of bodily nutriment. In after ages men will point...
...meet the wants of those of our subscribers who desire to have the Magenta bound in volumes, we have prepared an appropriate title-page with Index of Contents. This will be ready at Richardson's during the coming week, and will be sold at cost. We also have a limited number of the issues under Volume II. from which incomplete sets may be filled...
...Magenta comes to us this week under the auspices of the new board. Numerous compliments on the poetry of both the Magenta and Advocate have been bestowed by the college press of the country. To these we would add ours, trusting that all college publications will bring up their poetry to the standard found in the Harvard papers. - Yale Courant...