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...very roundly for our audacity in hazarding the statement that the preparation required for entrance at Harvard, taken together with the prescribed work of the freshman year, amounts, probably, to as thorough a grounding in the leading departments of human knowledge as the entire course of many of our Western colleges affords. The Review confronts us with such a mass of statistics in reply as well nigh to appall us. Nevertheless, we are willing to accept the statistics with a good grace, and yet not recede from the essential point of our thesis. We instanced Oberlin as an example...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The fact that Prof. Palmer, one of our best-known and most popular instructors, has been offered a more lucrative position by one of the Western colleges, again brings up a question that is of the greatest importance for the future of the university. It is well known that Harvard is much embarrassed at present for money, and that every year we come out more and more behind. It is also well-known that many of our professors are underpaid. The result is that from time to time there are rumors floating about of some younger instructors...
...grief that we hear that changes in these departments have been contemplated. We hope that the authorities will think twice before they let Prof. Palmer go, and that he will also think of position here among the students as well as in the faculty before he accepts the proffered Western professorship...
...first floor is the parlor, and the windows in this apartment are hung with white lace curtains, fitting symbols of that energetic unrest which pervades certain Western houses, for these curtains are kept in constant motion, bulging out into the room like white-waistcoated aldermen in summer, and driven against the windows in winter by drafts of half heated air from one of Hawkins.' "self-feeding, self-cleaning giant furnaces." This furnace is a source of great comfort and rest to the Butterfield family. I say rest advisedly, for "change" is "rest," and the infinite variety of changes of this...
...strike among the coal miners of western Pennsylvania has begun at Monongahela...