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...educated man will learn more about the workings of a business in one year than the average boy apprentice will in three years. He brings a mind well trained and disciplined, accustomed to view things fairly and liberally, quick to comprehend, and once having grasped a subject tenacious of it. Place against these qualities the mind of the boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, and there can be no comparison made. The contrast is too startling and decisive. The one disadvantage of a college man entering business is, that his age is too advanced by the time he leaves...
...Four Freshmen" are fully alive to the enormous demands which they make upon us. We freely forgive them. Their excuse is ignorance or the present low state of the thermometer, which accounts for many cool things. When they have been longer with their class they will begin to comprehend that the number of bright men with whom they are associated is legion-not four...
...astronomy may be admitted to the Observatory as a student." But what is meant by "properly qualified?" It goes on to say, "a degree of astronomical knowledge as is implied in a thoro' acquaintance with Herschel's 'Outlines of As tronomy,' also a sufficient knowledge of mathematics readily to comprehend the mathematical expressions in works like Chauvenet's Spherical and practical Astronomy." Of course students of the University are thus practically debarred from availing themselves of this instruction unless they were fortunate enough to have made a study of this science before they entered college. But we know that there...
...have the traditional bonfire, let it be on Jarvis field, or in some spot where no danger to any property can be apprehended. But why the faculty should forbid the brass band to lead a procession through the yard, or the Glee Club to sing, it is difficult to comprehend. The explanation possibly is that the proctors, like the students, carried their programme further than was originally intended. The students built several bonfires because they were disturbed at the first one. The proctors, in order to prevent dangerous fires, ordered the students to go to their rooms and would allow...
...ambiguous contemporary, the Yale News, again puts us to some trouble to comprehend its remarks on the subject of where the freshman game shall be played. It states, after quoting a sentence or two from our editorial to the effect that the Harvard freshman nine ought to insist on playing the first game here, that "it is evident, however, that the HERALD-CRIMSON speaks 'out of the heart,' and it occurs to us, remembering the sad assembly at the New Haven House corner on the occasion of that game last spring, that they may be speaking 'out of the pocket...