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...which should bind all classmates together; to rehearse the victories and celebrations of freshman year, and to have a jolly time generally; and all at the cost of a couple of dollars, though with the inducement of passing a very pleasant, profitable and sociable evening. We hope that the backward members of '89 will come to the scratch today and sign the book without more...
...Harvard, as elsewhere, the best practical teachers have evolved from the tutorial system. If one looks backward through Harvard catalogues for a period of thirty-five or forty years, he will discover that the present academic staff is largely of tutorial origin. From Dr. Peabody and President Eliot, who began their official connection with the college-the first in 1832, the second in 1854-both as tutors of mathematics, down to the most recent appointments of instructors and assistant professors, this statement will in general hold tone. Harvard, founded to 'advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity' has always remained...
...Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down this number with the agreeable feeling of having been entertained...
...from New York, especially when that state has two very large colleges, Columbia and Cornell, besides a host of smaller ones. Illinois is showing up extremely well, and Colorado, which is not on the list, has contributed this year as many freshmen as California. The Southern states are very backward in sending men here, none of them contributing more than two. In the West, however, Harvard seems to be popular...
Yale isn't backward in tooting her little horn when occasion offers. At the alumni banquet in New York the other night, Mr. Depew allowed that Harvard and Princeton might lock horns on the great questions of destiny in the next world, but that Yale is satisfied for the present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship...