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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gosling," - a phenomenon whose real existence one is inclined to question, - he will never become popular by pursuing the policy suggested by this social critic. The man who will make a fool of himself because "Swellington" does, and will then "brag about it for the rest of the year," cannot be familiar with the ways and means of social preferment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOSLING AND SWELLINGTON. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...seems to us that something better could be devised for a preliminary trial than merely having the Boylston Professor select twenty of the speakers to take part in the final contest. When we consider the fondness of judges for making an award which shall astonish everybody, we cannot help feeling that it is impossible for one single man to pick out twenty men, and say that they, and none but they, stand a chance for the five prizes that are offered. It seems to us that the only really fair way is to have the same judges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...good one, but it is carried to such an excess by some instructors that it is fast becoming a nuisance. So many copies of the texts required in studying for Honors are reserved, that those who have occasion to work outside of the Library complain that they cannot get any editions. It is useful to have enough copies of a play reserved to enable each of the candidates that are at work in the Library to have a book; but when an instructor puts every good edition on the reference shelves, many who wish to do work outside are greatly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...practicable, but still more desirable, would be the entry of a four-oar, as only with a four-oar can we meet Cornell. There are several difficulties in the way of this course which do not present themselves in the case of an eight-oared race; but if we cannot enter both an eight and a four, and must choose between the two, it will be worth while to consider whether all the extra work and expense required for the entry of a four-oar will not be fully compensated for to the Crew themselves, as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

THERE are now nine universities in Russia. They cannot boast of great antiquity, for in Russia proper there was no university until the middle of the eighteenth century, when one was founded at Moscow by the Empress Elizabeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING ABOUT RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

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