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...that the preparation and delivery of a lecture by a student does him great good; but whether his hearers get as much advantage from this as they would if the same ground were gone over by the instructor, is not so certain, and of course the benefit of the whole class is what is aimed at. The inexperience of the men in writing a lecture, and their seeming inability at times to catch and make prominent the important points is one of the disadvantages; but a still greater and more annoying one is the practice of dragging into a lecture...
Such a book has been prepared by Messrs. King and Ivy; and already almost the whole edition of one thousand has been subscribed for. After a short sketch of the history and present state of the University, the book divides into two parts, and the first of these parts is called "A Walk through Harvard." Each hall in turn is fully described, and its interesting points noted...
...decidedly out of place there, if a Freshman might venture an opinion; he should have been all blue glass. Patriotic emblems are excellent in their proper place, but they should not be mingled with the tracery of a mediaeval architecture. Would it not have been better if the whole window had been a Goddess of Liberty, lightly clad in the star-spangled banner...
...statements were confined to particular cases which we had in mind. We said that there are men in college who show in an offensive and silly way their complete independence and their hostility to popular prejudices. We have heard them express their contempt for social success, and declare the whole college is imbued with the spirit of toadyism. But when we contrasted their present views with the opinions they entertained when they came to college, we could not help recalling the instructive fable of the fox and the grapes...
...Probably Mr. H. is speaking from his own experience," said a young lady, "and not of the opinion of his class as a whole...