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...Harvard indifference" is the name of a very pleasant personal quality which is possessed in perfection by the Seniors, and should be acquired at once. The best way of becoming a master of this quality is to watch the Seniors constantly. It cannot be acquired...
...Chinese language at Harvard. We congratulate the College on the early accomplishment of the plan. A Professor of Chinese has been sent here by a private subscription of American merchants in China, and several letters from China are in the hands of the Corporation, containing information as to the best methods of teaching the language of that country. We trust that the stay of Professor Ko Kun Hua among us will be agreeable to him, and that the College will be able to profit by his services. We believe that positive advantage will be derived from this new experiment...
...following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests...
...attract some attention in this country: but we have never seen it set forth and illustrated with such precision as is done by Dr. Watson in the explanation of his "Studio and Atelier." This school gives such instruction as has been furnished in the past only by the best technical schools of Europe, and uses "many graphical and abridged methods not yet embodied in text-books, but contained in manuscripts and lithographs." The European system instructs by familiar lectures, fully illustrated with practical examples; and the collections of drawings and models in Dr. Watson's possession enable him to give...
...valor, displayed on many a gory field when our country was in peril, are recorded in the sacred pages of history; in peace unable to divest myself of the military habits formed by four years of arduous service, I continued to follow the occupation for which I was best adapted by nature and most familiar by practice. But here I must pause, for with the remembrance of the Monday night drill, the words of command and battle struggle for utterance. Yes, gentlemen, let the historian chronicle my exploits in war if he will; let the poet sing them in paeans...